What to see in America . is life. The Wrens Nest, where he lived,at 214 Gordon Street, is preserved as a memorial. It is asimple homelike house, and the intimate possessions of theauthor lie about just as he left them. Visitors may see,fastened to a tree by the gate, the old letter box in whicha wren built her nest and so gave the house its name. Sixteen miles east of Atlanta is a great smooth granitehump known as Stone Mountain, which is one of Americasnatural wonders. It is about two miles long and sevenhundred and fifty feet high, and there is not a fissure in mountain is to be made


What to see in America . is life. The Wrens Nest, where he lived,at 214 Gordon Street, is preserved as a memorial. It is asimple homelike house, and the intimate possessions of theauthor lie about just as he left them. Visitors may see,fastened to a tree by the gate, the old letter box in whicha wren built her nest and so gave the house its name. Sixteen miles east of Atlanta is a great smooth granitehump known as Stone Mountain, which is one of Americasnatural wonders. It is about two miles long and sevenhundred and fifty feet high, and there is not a fissure in mountain is to be made a Confederate memorial, and Stone Mountain, near Atlanta Georgia 181 the granite is to be adorned, some four hundred feet up, by acolumn of troops of gigantic proportions, marching along aroadway, headed by Lee and Jackson on horseback, the wholeto be carved out of the solid rock. The equestrian figureswill be fifty or more feet tall, and the procession will cover astrip of perhaps a mile. At the foot of the great rock a. Collecting Barrels of Resin near Ocilla temple is to be hewn out of the mountain and used as a placefor the safe-keeping of Confederate relics and archives. Georgias loftiest mountain is Brasstown Bald, 4768 feethigh, on the northeastern border of the state. The popularnickname for the people is Buzzards. Poor whites knownas crackers are sufficiently numerous to have given Georgiathe title of the Cracker State.


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