stone mountain

another vernacular georgia "excursion," this time to stone mountain (not the rock but the town) --- this little monument to 1864 (telegraph pole with wires cut, "sherman's neckties" twisted around the pole) would be swell but for the overwrought carved granite marker next to it ---

saw a nice pair of concrete houses from the 1860s and a small ruined hotel ---

learned too much about the cemetery

the old hotel rooms were used for storage by the department store that occupied the first floor until 1978 and artifacts remain from that era ---