The Confederate Memorial @ Stone Mountain Park

The South’s version of Mount Rushmore. Pictures don’t do it justice. It’s just a shame that the Memorial is inside of Stone Mountain theme park. It detracts from the aura of the Memorial to the Confederate Generals.
Carved into the side of Stone Mountain, this is an impressive site well worth seeing. Even better is to take the Gondola ride up to the top of Stone Mountain. You get incredible views of the Memorial, and being atop the Mountain is pretty impressive as well.

I wanted to see Stone Mountain. I did get to finally see it only after I had to pay 15 dollars to park and 29 dollars for a one day adventure pass. The carving is beautiful. The construction in front of it was not. I did not care for being jammed like a sardine in the skylift. The top of the mountain was great, the view was beautiful. The ride on the train would have been nice except for the idiotic narration during the ride. To me it was a shame to see that the carving sits in the middle of a three ring circus. What a waste.

Historical site with Robert e lee and Jefferson Davis carve into mountain, it size suppose to be bigger than Mount Rushmore

Enjoyed the day. Bring your kids and have a blast. Guess we’ll hang out and see the laser show. Kids love the attractions and we loved the fans and cool spot provided while kids play. Show up early because if you plan on doing every thing you need the time.

Wee decided to visit Stone Mountain Park for the Holidays. The best park of our trip was the Memorial Museum because we found out a lot of interesting things about the Civil War and the Stone Mountain. I highly recommend it.

The war’s over, but this huge undertaking is something you should see. It’s the South’s Mount Rushmore. The long history of starts and stops, the money issues, the different artisans and carvers who created it – the video in the visitor’s center explains everything. They’ve added a lot of fun theatrics – laser light shows, a train that circles the mountain’s base, an aerial tramway – and the park surrounding the mountain is lovely.

I’ve visited the memorial twice now — once when I was high school (about 25 years ago) and again just a few weeks ago. It is an impressive piece of art to behold during a complex time in American history. I can definitely understand the controversy behind it.

I have been going to Stone Mountain Park for 30+ years and have always enjoyed it. I love all the updates to the Laser Show on the side of the mountain.

Ok, so who really wants to get into history especially dealing with anything with confederate anything. I commend the art work and I’ll leave it at that… If it was all about the history. No five stars.

hahaha, hilarious. Like I said before, they really downplay the whole F YEAH SOUTHERN PRIDE thing compared to 17 years ago when I was last out here. The laser show was cool, and the memorial itself is amazing. Really a work of art.

I’m writing a separate review because the Memorial is something special and set-​aside. It shouldn’t really be discussed in the same review as «snow mountain» and «the duck ride» and «the laser show.» It has its own fascinating history that deserves its own separate oeuvre here on Unilocal.
So, let me briefly tell the story. On the side of this mountain is the largest granite bas-​relief in the world. On it are enshrined three American heroes of the Confederacy: President Davis, General Robert E. Lee, and General Thomas «Stonewall» Jackson. The story of how it came to be made is almost as fascinating as the separate histories of those men themselves.
Gutzon Borglum was commissioned to do a carving in the Nineteen-​teens. His project was very ambitious, and was set to have many figures in the carving. Work stalled due to World War I and Borglum went on to Mount Rushmore.
Augustus Lukeman made a lot more progress, including dynamiting Borglum’s original work and making quite a bit of progress on a new design, which is the one we have substantially before us today. The Great Depression and WWII further delayed the work and it wasn’t until the 1970s that Roy Faulkner, with a lot of the crew that worked with Lukeman in the early days, finished this magnificent carving.
Confederate Hall, which overlooks the monument, has some great short videos which tell the story of the Battle of Georgia and the «men who built the mountain.»
At the base of the Memorial are various «mini-​memorials» in which each state of the Confederacy is commemorated with a granite block and a series of explanations with pictures and texts that tell the story of that state’s involvement in the War. Included are the border states of Missouri and Kentucky.
Unilocal is not the place to get into the complex story of the War Between the States. It is easy enough to reject the narrative of North = good, South = evil. I think any intellectually honest person gets that. The complications and contradictions… that’s far more fascinating… and better to have a discussion in person about stuff like that. :-)
However you feel, this memorial should inspire anyone to take a deeper and closer look at American history.