The Plantation at Stone Mountain

Saturday morning after attending the 9:00 session of the temple, since it was cool, and since it was our P-Day, and since we have season passes to Stone Mountain, we went to see the Plantation on site. There was a great deal more to see than just the Plantation House - very enjoyable!
This is the Plantation House, the Dickey house, which was moved to this site along with all of the other buildings. They removed all of the porches and stairs, divided the house into four pieces and then moved it. Quite a feat. It is a beautiful home and has over 6200 square feet.

Instructions for greeting the animals. Another sign says that if you have been out of the country in the last five days, you have to take extra precautions so as to not give the animals hoof and mouth disease.

This is the upstairs dining room of the Dickey House. Notice anything unusual about the mirror on the wall? It is convex so as to reflect more of the candlelight around the room.

This child's toy horse is actually covered in horse hide and comes off of its base to roll around on wheels.

These are marbles in a slave's cabin which was not much larger than the doctor's, although a great deal more sparse.


This is the log cabin belonging to Dr. Powell whose daughter, Amanda was the basis for Margaret Mitchell's Scarlet O'Hara in 'Gone With The Wind". Sister Peterson and I are eager to go to the Mitchell Museum and see if we can learn more.