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1915, Stone Mountain

In 1915, Helen Plane, one of the Charter Members of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, approached Gutzon Borglum with the idea of carving Stone Mountain, Georgia, with a large scale likeness of General Robert E. Lee. Borglum accepted the project, but changed its scope slightly, envisioning a procession of the Confederate heroes of Lee, Davis, and Jackson leading a battalion of infantry around the mountain. The outbreak of the first world war caused some delays, but Borglum and his family relocated to Georgia to undertake the work. Because of the scale of the sculpture, Borglum had to create a custom means of projecting the dimensions from his working model onto the mountain face. (www.findagrave.com)

Also notable at this time period, Gutzon Borglum became a Lifetime member of the newly reformed Ku Klux Klan (Wizards & Prominent Klansmen), which provided a majority of the funding for the Stone Mountain project thanks to the revenues

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