Black Rock Mountain State Park Black Rock Mountain State Park Black Rock Mountain State Park is a Georgia state park west of Mountain City in Rabun County, Georgia, in Georgia's Blue Ridge Mountains. It is named after its sheer cliffs of dark-colored biotite gneiss. Astride the Eastern Continental Divide at an elevation of , the park provides many scenic overlooks and vistas of the southern Appalachian Mountains. On a clear day, four states are visible: Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. In addition to Black Rock Mountain itself, the park includes four other peaks over in elevation, making it the highest state park in
Stone Mountain 3, 1972. An extensive archival collection related to the project is now at Emory University, with the bulk of the materials dating from 1915 to 1930; the finding aid provides a history of the project, and an index of the papers contained in the collection. Stone Mountain Park officially opened on April 14, 1965 – 100 years to the day after Lincoln's assassination. Four flags of the Confederacy are flown. The Stone Mountain Memorial Lawn "contains...thirteen terraces — one for each Confederate state... Each terrace flies the flag that the state flew as member of the Confederacy." The rebirth of