Talk:Stone Mountain, Georgia

Comments
+++++++++++++++ Well, according to the Stone Mountain Park Wikipedia page (quoted below), Stone Mountain is not the "largest," nor is it actually "granite"! Someone want to work on fixing this Stone Mountain, GA page?

Stone Mountain is a quartz monzonite dome monadnock in Stone Mountain, Georgia. At its summit, the elevation is 1,686 feet (513 m) amsl and 825 feet (251.5 m) above the surrounding area. Stone Mountain granite extends underground 9 miles (14 km) at its longest point into Gwinnett County. Numerous reference books and Georgia literature have dubbed Stone Mountain as “the largest exposed piece of granite in the world". This misnomer is most likely a result of advertisement by granite companies and early park administration. In actuality, there are larger exposed granite landscapes throughout the world including the Sierra Nevada mountain range in California. Stone Mountain, though often called a pink granite dome, is actually a quartz monzonite rock when described in geologic terms and is therefore not technically granite. 12.105.193.2 (talk) 11:47, 17 February 2010 (UTC) +++++++++++++++++++ Most of this article is basically copy-pasted from the town's official website. Needs a complete re-write, but I don't have time right now. Drake144 (talk) 21:30, 28 November 2010 (UTC)

History section - copyright status
In 2012 I deleted the content of the history section as it appeared to be wholly copied from the city of Stone Mountain's Web site. Today User:Hillis1701 reverted that change I made.

This is the piece of text in question as it currently stands in this article:


 * In 1822 the area that now makes up the City of Stone Mountain was made a part of the newly formed Dekalb County. A post office was created in 1834 on the old Augusta Road, and Andrew Johnson built a hotel along the road in 1836. At around the same time, Aaron Cloud built an observation tower at the summit of the mountain. Visitors to the mountain would travel to the area by rail and road, and then walk up the 1.1 mile mountaintop trail to the top, where Cloud also had a restaurant and club.


 * By 1839 a general store was added and a village was established under the name New Gibraltar. The name was officially changed to Stone Mountain by the Georgia legislature in 1847. During the Civil War, Stone Mountain village was destroyed by men under the command of General John McPherson on July 19, 1864.

I decided to do a bit of digging. The first time that piece of text appears on stonemountaincity.org's homepage is some time after March 2009 (Wayback Machine archive). However the first occurrence of the text (in a slightly different form) was contributed to this article in 2005 (Wikipedia revision).

Owing to the fact that the two paragraphs were on Wikipedia 4 years before their first (known) appearance on the city's Web site, and the fact that the city's Web site's copy of the paragraphs reflects the state of the paragraphs on Wikipedia circa 2009, I feel confident concluding that those paragraphs were originally written for Wikipedia and thus are not infringing anybody's copyrights by being on Wikipedia.

Please accept my apologies for acting in a manner which caused detriment to this article, and thanks to User:Hillis1701 for reverting my mistake. --holizz (talk) 03:20, 14 August 2013 (UTC)

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School zoning
In regards to school zoning I am focused on where the city limits are zoned to. The zoned middle (big PDF file warning) and high schools (ibid) are indeed outside of the Stone Mountain city limits, but nonetheless because the city limits are zoned to those institutions I feel it is important to discuss that in the education section. (Note Champion Theme Middle is a magnet school and Stone Mountain residents aren't automatically zoned there). Additionally, as per the elementary zoning map (ibid) there are parts of Stone Mountain in the south zoned to another elementary school, so I included a mention of that too.

I have not seen a reliable source saying that areas of Gwinnett County are popularly thought of as being in Stone Mountain. WhisperToMe (talk) 00:53, 19 February 2023 (UTC)