The Venable Brothers was a business venture formed by brothers William Hoyt Venable (1852–1905) and Samuel Hoyt Venable (1856–1939) in DeKalb County, Georgia.[1] The brothers owned rock quarries.[2] Sam Venable was involved in the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and in the creation of the Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain, Georgia.[2] He owned Stone Mountain, where a cross burning was held in 1915, and granted the Klan an easement to the mountain in 1923. The Venable brothers granted a 12-year lease to Stone Mountain for the carving of the Confederate memorial carving started by Gutzon Borglum.[1]
Samuel Hoyt Venable
The State of Georgia purchased the Stone Mountain property in 1958.[2]
The Venables bought Stone Mountain in 1887 for $48,000.[4] The brothers donated granite from Stone Mountain for a church on Peachtree and North Avenue in Atlanta.[5]
^Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1880s-1930s By Franklin M. Garrett
January 01, 1970
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