Atlanta - Stone Mountain Park

16 mi. east of the city centre, at 6867 Memorial Drive, is Stone Mountain Park (area 5 sq. mi.), commemorating the soldiers of the southern states who fell in the Civil War. In the centre of the park is Stone Mountain, an 863 ft high mass of exposed granite with a circumference of 5 mi. On the east flank of the hill is an equestrian relief, hewn from the rock between 1923 and 1970, depicting the three Confederate leaders, President Jefferson Davis and his two generals, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee. The top of the hill can be reached by cable car, and round it runs an old steam railway. Nearby is an artificial lake on which there are paddle-steamer cruises. Other features are a museum devoted to the early days of industrialisation in the southern states, a Civil War Museum and an antebellum plantation (restored).