who paid for the carving on stone mountain
Stone Mountain The carving was conceived by Mrs. C. Helen Plane,[8] a charter member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC). The Venable Brothers, owners of the mountain, deeded the north face of the mountain to the UDC in 1916. The UDC was given 12 years to complete a sizable Civil War monument. Gutzon Borglum was commissioned to do the carving. Borglum abandoned the project in 1925 (and later went on to begin Mount Rushmore). The US Mint issued a 1925 Commemorative silver US half dollar, along with the words "Stone Mountain" as part of a fundraiser for the monument.[9] American sculptor Augustus Lukeman continued until 1928, when further work stopped for thirty years. In 1958, at the urging of Governor Marvin Griffin, the Georgia legislature approved a measure to purchase Stone Mountain for $1,125,000. In 1963, Walker Hancock was selected to complete the carving, and work began in 1964. The carving was completed by Roy Faulkner, who later operated a museum (now closed) on nearby Memorial Drive commemorating the carving's history. The carving was completed on March 3, 1972.[10] An extensive archival collection related to the project is now at Emory University, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1915 to 1930; the 'finding aid' provides a history of the project, and an index of the papers contained in the collection.[8]