This is an unmailed postcard.  On the back it says, "The Dixie Route operates luxuriously equipped through trains the year roiund between Chicago, St. Louis and Florida".  Note that the carving above shows the army behind the three figures of  Davis, Lee and Jackson, indicating it was a depiction of how the carving was to look when complete.  The actual completed carving only ended up with the three main figures.

Stone Mountain is located in DeKalb County, just south of present day Highway 78 near the Garner and Rockbridge Districts of Gwinnett County.  It was once in the heart of Creek Indian territory.    Many early Gwinnett County merchants traveled to "Stoney Mountain" to trade with the Indians.

In 1845 the railroad was completed to Stone Mountain, and granite was excavated for the use all over the area.  During the Civil War, Sherman's army destroyed the railroad between Decatur and Stone Mountain, and burned the little town of New Gibraltar at the mountain's base  (it was rebuilt and renamed Stone Mountain Village).

The first white man who capitalized on the tourist attraction of Stone Mountain was Aaron McCloud, who in 1883 built a wooden tower on it's summit with 300 stairs to an observatory.  The tower blew away in a storm.

The idea for the carving  was  conceived of as a Confederate Memorial in 1912, to depict the figures of  President Jefferson Davis and Generals Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson on horseback.  It  was not completed until the 1960s.

Carving in Progress.  Unmailed postcard. "Showing the finished head of General Lee and the outline of 'Traveler,' the first figure in the memorial to the Confederacy.  When the horse is completed the two figures will be 165 feet high or as tall as a 15 story office building