Talk:Fort Mountain State Park

Legends
A high school classmate asked me to accompany her on an outing to Fort Mountain in 1953. She was writing a paper about the archeology of the area. Supposedly, Roy Chapman Andrews had written an adventurous article in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution some years before in which he told of a small cave in the middle of a limestone cliff that he and his companion were unable to enter because of a fear of rattlesnakes. A small turkey claw was inscribed at the entrance. My friend and I rappelled down the cliff but did not find the cave. We talked with a couple of farmers of Indian descent, and they told us the legends of "Ten-foot moon-eyed men" who may have built the wall at the top. This coincides with the reference to Welsh explorers, but we thought it referred to Vikings. Supposedly, earlier in the twentieth century very little vegetation grew within the stone walled area, and there was some sort of cave or large hole that was later filled in by state park workers. If anyone has sufficient interest they might search the Journal-Constituion files for this article, which may or may not exist! Oldtimermath (talk) 01:18, 11 May 2020 (UTC)