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Boat Rock Rd.
Boat Rock is a small city in the Sandtown, Ga Community of Fulton County.

Murders
The Atlanta child murders was happeing strong on the southside of atlanta. Not to far way from Boat Rock their were some bodies found near a local school on the side of the Union Rd. Timithoy Hill was also found on Jackson Prky. This had a lot of the parents scared to let their kids go outside and play, although the murders contined to happen the kids continued to go outside. There were about 30 murders from all around that general area.

History
The road was named after a ridge of boulders was found on a mie long road. The orgins of boat rock goes back as far as 325 millon years ago. Intrusion of magma had created a large dome under earth and several milion years after cooling slowly erosive forces began to slowy expose the rocks. These boulders have ben used since the late 1960's.

Today
Today we know this area as Boat Rock. Geologists commonly refer this area as the Ben Hill Batholith. Boat Rock has one of the five known batholiths in Greater Atlanta area. Stone Mountain, Arabia Mountain, and Panola Mountain is where the other boatholiths are located. These batholics are protected from developers and will used as parks by the citizens of Atlanta. Boat Rock is now used to host rock climing on the many builders. The area has been cleaned up and is raising a lot of money to keep it that way. In the 80's Boat Rock had been known as a project area untill the city took control and tore down the area. Now the area has produce a strong value for the surrounding homeowners.