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  2. Stone Mountain - Wikipedia

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    Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock and the site of Stone Mountain Park, 15 miles (24 km) east of Atlanta, Georgia. Outside the park is the city of Stone Mountain, Georgia. The park is the most visited tourist site in the state of Georgia. The park is owned by the state of Georgia. At its summit, the elevation is 1,686 feet (514 ...

  3. The Varsity (restaurant) - Wikipedia

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    The famous Varsity 'V' sign as seen from the Downtown Connector. The Varsity is a restaurant chain in Atlanta, Georgia. [2] The main branch of the chain was the largest drive-in fast food restaurant in the world, [3] taking up two city blocks and accommodating up to 800 diners. The main location ended car-side service in 2020. [4]

  4. Ponce de Leon Avenue - Wikipedia

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    Ponce de Leon Avenue (/ ˌpɒns də ˈliːən / PONSS də LEE-ən), often simply called Ponce, provides a link between Atlanta, Decatur, Clarkston, and Stone Mountain, Georgia. It was named for Ponce de Leon Springs, in turn from explorer Juan Ponce de León, but is not pronounced as in Spanish. Several grand and historic buildings are located ...

  5. Stone Mountain, Georgia - Wikipedia

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    Stone Mountain is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. The population was 6,703 according in 2020. Stone Mountain is in the eastern part of DeKalb County and is a suburb of Atlanta that encompasses nearly 1.7 square miles. It lies near and touches the western base of the geological formation of the same name.

  6. Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad - Wikipedia

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    1962–present. Technical. Track gauge. 4 ft 8. +. 1⁄2 in ( 1,435 mm) standard gauge. Length. 3.88 mi (6.24 km) The Stone Mountain Scenic Railroad (SMRR) is a standard gauge railroad that circles the perimeter of Stone Mountain Park in a loop, and provides views of the mountain en route.

  7. Venable Brothers - Wikipedia

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    The Venables bought Stone Mountain in 1887 for $48,000. [4] The brothers donated granite from Stone Mountain for a church on Peachtree and North Avenue in Atlanta. [5]Sam Venable's home on the northeast corner of Ponce de Leon Avenue and Oakdale Road was bought in 1959 for $60,000 by St. John's Lutheran Church.

  8. James R. Venable - Wikipedia

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    Dorothy Venable. Children. Ginger Fearria and Dorothea Wallsom. James R. Venable (January 15, 1901 – January 18, 1993) was a white supremacist Georgia lawyer and Mayor of Stone Mountain, Georgia from 1946 to 1949. He established the Klan national faction National Knights of the Ku Klux Klan in 1963, which he led for 25 years.

  9. Shermantown (Atlanta) - Wikipedia

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    Illustration of Shermantown from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1880. Shermantown was a late 19th-century African-American shantytown in Stone Mountain Village neighborhood of Stone Mountain in Dekalb County, Georgia. It was named after General Sherman whose troops occupied Atlanta after the Civil War. It sits in the shadow of Stone Mountain Park.

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