Posted on 01/28/2010 12:19:06 PM PST by SoonerStorm09
ELBERTON, Ga. -- Driving north from Atlanta on I-85 toward South Carolina, you exit east at Georgia Highway 51, then exit again at Highway 17, which takes you straight to the city of Elberton. Once in Elberton, population 5,000, you take Highway 77 north for almost nine miles. Eyes scanning the horizon, you finally see it perched on a high knoll, with an easy-to-miss turnoff onto a small road that leads practically up to its foot.
It stands alone in all its mighty glory, and on any given day you’ll likely be the only visitor.
Four rectangular slabs of granite are positioned so that together they form an X; each slab is just under 16 and a half feet tall, six and a half feet wide, and 18 inches thick. Each weighs more than 21 tons. Where the four come together at the center, another slab, half as wide but just as tall and thick, rises up. All five are held on top by a 25,000-pound rectangular capstone that measures roughly 10 feet by six feet. The faces of the four main slabs are polished front and back, as are the edges of the capstone.
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Very interesting, and somewhat bizarre, read! Thanks!
Well, they’ll be vaporized in 2012, so whatever.
Pretty cool. I’d never heard of it and I used to vacation in the GA mountains often.
Pictures???
Given that it is built in the heart of moonshine country it could just be some good ol’ boy, stoned on mountain dew (and possibly snake venom from a Sunday church meeting), had a vision and said what the heck boys lets get er done. Bet this’ll mess with them city boys heads for a long time. Foxfire my a$$.
yes charming NOT
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