Stone Mountain is unique. Chemical makeup of the granite, and its physical characteristics, are different enough from all other stone in the Southeast to indicate that this is the only portion of that ancient flow of molten rock that has yet reached the surface. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS _A Short History of Georgia_, by E. Merton Coulter. University of North Carolina Press, Chapel Hill, N. C., 1933. _Georgia’s Landmarks, Memorials and Legends_, Volume II, by Lucian Lamar Knight. Byrd Printing Co., Atlanta, 1913. _Georgia: Unfinished State_, by Hal Steed. Alfred A. Knopf, New York, 1942. _Empire Builders of Georgia_, by Ruth Elgin Suddeth, Isa Lloyd Osterhout and George Lewis Hutcheson. The Steck Company, Austin, Tex., 1962. _Georgia: A Guide to the Towns and Countryside._ Federal Writing Project, University of Georgia Press, Athens, 1940. _Story of Georgia, Volume III_, by Walter G. Cooper. The American Historical Society, Inc., New York, 1938. _Cyclopedia of Georgia, Volume III_, by Ex-Governor Allen B. Candler and General Clement A. Evans. State Historical Association, Atlanta, 1906. _Sal-O-Quah or Boy Life Among the Cherokees_, by Francis R. Goulding. Macon, Ga., 1870. _How Stone Mountain Was Created_, by Poole Maynard, Ph.D. Waverly Press, Inc., Baltimore, U. S. A., 1929. _A Temple of Sacred Memories in the Breast of a Granite Mountain_, by Augustus Lukeman. Lyon-Young, 1927. _History of Stone Mountain_, by Leila Venable Mason Eldredge. 1950. _Miscellanies of Georgia_, by Absalom H. Chappell. Gilbert Printing Co., Columbus, Ga., 1874. _The History of Stone Mountain Memorial_, by Mildred Lewis Rutherford, State Historian of Georgia Division of United Daughters of the Confederacy. Files of The Atlanta Journal, The Atlanta Constitution, The Atlanta Georgian, The Atlanta Journal Magazine, The Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine. The Mary Carter Winter Stone Mountain Collection, donated to the Georgia Department of Archives and History. Page 4: Borglum studio photo, courtesy Mary Carter Winters Page 5: Blast photo, courtesy Arthur B. Kellogg Page 6: Lukeman photo, courtesy Augustus Lukeman family Page 7: Workmen photo, courtesy Mary Carter Winters; Lukeman model photo by Roy Faulkner Page 8: Lukeman unveiling photo by Kenneth Rogers Page 11: Upper left photo by Joe Tucker Page 12: Torch photos by Frank Rippitoe; Hancock and model photo by Roy Faulkner Page 16: Photo by Kenneth Rogers Page 20-21: Carving color photo by Sara Stilwell Page 23: Flower color photos by Kenneth Rogers Page 26: Photo by Kenneth Rogers Page 29: Photo by Kenneth Rogers Page 32: Jeep photos by Sara Stilwell Page 33: Tower photo by Kenneth Rogers Page 39: Photo by Sara Stilwell Page 40-41: Photos by Kenneth Rogers Page 44: Photo by Kenneth Rogers BACK COVER PHOTOS