This week at Millis Road our 5th Graders created Spotlight on North Carolina Powerpoints. Enjoy learning about the famous people and places of NC!

1. Stone Mountain State Park
By: Josie Cooper and Lexi Eason

2. Stone Mountain is not immediately visible
upon entering the park that bears its name,
but this magnificent 600-foot granite dome is
well worth the wait. Sunlight and shadows
dance across a broad tapestry of stone. White-
tailed deer emerge from the security of the
forest to graze on meadow grasses at the
mountain's base. The scenery is only one
attraction of the park.
Test your fly-fishing techniques in more than
20 miles of designated trout waters. Or, with
more than 18 miles of trails, take a hike in the
park. Designated as a National Natural
Landmark in 1975, Stone Mountain is bounded
on the north by the Blue Ridge Parkway and on
the west by the Thurmond Chatham Game
Lands. More than 14,200 acres of mountain
beauty offer opportunities for outdoor
activities of all kinds.
Information about Stone Mountain State Park
One of the park's most spectacular features is
Stone Mountain, a 600-foot granite dome. This
magnificent feature is part of a 25-square-mile
pluton, an igneous rock formed beneath the
earth's surface by molten lava. Over time,
wind, water and other forces gradually eroded
the softer layers of rock atop the granite block
and exposed the outcrop we see today. Wet
weather springs continually carve troughs in
the granite as water runs down the mountain's
sloping face.

3. Fact and more information
October 2002 – The First Annual Pumpkin
Festival is held.
November 2002 – Stone Mountain Christmas
opens as “A Southern Christmas”
March 2003 – Kid’s Spring Break festival first
held.
2004 – The Treehouse Challenge opens.
2004 – Ride The Ducks™ tours begin.
2004 – Major renovation of Confederate Hall
as an Environmental Education Center and
museum on the mountain's geology and
ecology.
November 2005 – A Southern Christmas
renamed to A Stone Mountain Christmas.
June 3, 2006 – Extreme Summer Adventure
festival & Camp Highland Outpost opens.
April 2007 – Tour de Georgia bicycling race
finishes stage seven inside the park.
May 2007 – Animal Planet Summer Adventure
opens.
July 2008 – Great Locomotive Chase Adventure
Golf opens.
May 3, 2008 – Debut of digitally premastered
25th Anniversary edition of the Laser show
Spectacular.

4. Pictures of flowers that grow there and
pictures of stone mountain state park
Flowers Stone Mountain

5. http://www.ncparks.gov/Visit/parks/stmo/mai
n.php
http://www.stonemountainpark.com/activities
.aspx?cid=ppc_007875
http://www.stonemountainpark.com/
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