Stone Mountain est un monadnock à dôme de quartz monzonite et le site de Stone Mountain Park près de Stone Mountain, Géorgie. À son sommet, l'altitude est de 1 686 pieds (514 m) au-dessus du niveau de la mer et de 251 m (825 pieds) au-dessus de la zone environnante. Stone Mountain est bien connu non seulement pour sa géologie, mais aussi pour l'énorme relief rocheux sur sa face nord, le plus grand bas-relief dans le monde. La sculpture dépeint trois figures confédérés, Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee et Stonewall Jackson, et a fait l'objet d'une controverse généralisée.

• Contributeur: American Photo Archive / Alamy Banque D'Images
• ID de l’image: 2AYXB85
• Taille du fichier: 63,5 MB (2,8 MB Téléchargement compressé)
• Autorisations: Modèle - non | Propriété - non
• Dimensions: 5677 x 3911 px | 48,1 x 33,1 cm | 18,9 x 13 inches | 300dpi
• Date de la prise de vue: 14 février 2020
• Lieu: Stone Mountain, Georgia

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Owned and paid for by the state of Georgia, Stone Mountain is the most-visited tourist attraction in the state. The largest bas-relief sculpture in the world, the Confederate Memorial Carving depicts three Confederate leaders of the Civil War: President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Thomas J. "Stonewall" Jackson (and their favorite horses, "Blackjack", "Traveller", and "Little Sorrel", respectively). The entire carved surface measures 1.57 acres (6, 400 m2). The carving of the three men towers 400 feet (120 m) above the ground, measures 76 by 158 feet (23 by 48 m), and is recessed 42 feet (13 m) into the mountain. The deepest point of the carving is at Lee's right elbow, which is 12 feet (3.7 m) into the mountain's surface. "Who first conceived of a Confederate memorial on the side of Stone Mountain has long been a matter of debate..... The written evidence...points to Francis Ticknor, a nineteenth-century physician and poet from Jones County, Georgia...in an 1869 poem.... William H. Terrell, an Atlanta attorney and son of a Confederate veteran, ...suggested it publicly on May 26, 1914 in an editorial for the Atlanta Constitution.":55 Three weeks later, Georgian John Temple Graves, editor of the New York American, suggested it should have a 70 feet (21 m) statue of Robert E. Lee.:56 The project was greatly advanced by Mrs. C. Helen Plane, a charter member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC) and first president and Honorary Life President of the Georgia State Division.[17]:57 After obtaining the approval of the Georgia UDC, she set up the UDC Stone Mountain Memorial Association. It was she who chose Gutzon Borglum and invited him to visit the mountain (although, despite his Ku Klux Klan involvement, :79 she "would not shake his hand—he was, after all, a Yankee").58–59

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