Valor Park Stone Mountain
Valor Park Stone Mountain,,The Stone Mountain Memorial Association board on Monday approved a handful of resolutions that it hopes will help soften the image of the world’s largest Confederate monument — and, perhaps, get the park out of a looming economic bind.
The adopted resolutions included giving the go-ahead for a new on-site museum exhibit that officials say would aim to “tell the truth” about the ugly history of the park and the mountainside carving of Confederate leaders Jefferson Davis, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee.
The board also approved relocating a Confederate flag plaza from the mountain’s walk-up trail. The flags, which were erected in the 1960s by the United Daughters of the Confederacy, would be moved to Valor Park — an area near the base of the mountain that already hosts a number of other tributes to the Civil War South.
Georgia law prohibits the flags from being removed entirely, but officials said the move would keep them off the park’s most heavily trafficked area. Not Hate History!!!Georgia law prohibits the flags from being removed entirely, Respect History.Never Erase History.Valor is located at Stone Mountain Park..