Georgia History: Stone Mountain Carving

97 Years ago this month, back in 1915, a sculptor with an unusual name paid Stone Mountain a visit. He was there at the behest of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, who were commissioning a memorial to Robert E. Lee on the face of the granite.

The sculptor was Gutzon Borglum and though he would begin work on the carving, it would take almost fifty years for another sculptor to finally complete what we now see there—three men astride horses in the largest bas relief sculpture in the world.

To learn more about the long and complicated history of the carving, we made a trip to Stone Mountain Park to meet up with Dr. Tim Crimmins, Director of the Center for Neighborhood and Metropolitan Studies at Georgia State University.