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30-1643: Daugherty may refer to: People with the surname [ edit ] Amira Daugherty , American rapper and singer Billy Joe Daugherty (1952-2009), American founder and pastor of Victory Christian Center Brad Daugherty , American basketball player Brad Daugherty , professional poker player Chris Daugherty , American construction worker and reality television personality Derri Daugherty , American record producer, songwriter, guitarist and singer Duffy Daugherty , American football coach George Daugherty , American-born conductor and music director Gordon Daugherty , American computer scientist Harry M. Daugherty (1860-1941), American politician Herschel Daugherty , American actor and television director James Daugherty , American author and illustrator James Alexander Daugherty (1847–1920), politician Jay Dee Daugherty , American drummer Jennifer Daugherty (1979–2010), Greensburg, Pennsylvania murder victim Jerome Daugherty (1849–1914), American Jesuit and president of Georgetown University Michael Daugherty , composer Patricia Daugherty , American management scientist Patrick M. Daugherty (1928-1997), American politician Places [ edit ] United States [ edit ] Daugherty, Missouri Daugherty Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania Dougherty, Rains County, Texas See also [ edit ] All pages with titles beginning with Daugherty All pages with titles containing Daugherty Dougherty (disambiguation) Topics referred to by

60-596: A City of Ethics designation from the Georgia Municipal Association and is a member of Main Street America. The Stone Mountain area has been a beneficiary of Georgia's flourishing film industry . Film crews and production personnel have become common sights in Stone Mountain Village. Due to the demand for filming in the historic downtown area, requests for filming in the village are handled by

90-596: A B.A. in political science from Agnes Scott College , where she became the first Muslim president of the college's Student Government Association . She initially intended to attend law school after graduating from Agnes Scott, but withdrew her application after the COVID-19 pandemic began. Daugherty began to post videos of her singing to TikTok , Instagram , and YouTube during the COVID-19 pandemic. She used ASL in her videos, to better connect with deaf viewers. Due to

120-671: A Dream " speech when he proclaimed, "let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia!" Charles Burris, the Village's first African-American mayor, dedicated the Freedom Bell on Main Street in King's honor on February 26, 2000. At an annual ceremony held on Martin Luther King Jr. Day , the bell is rung to commemorate King's legacy. The mountain has been known by countless names throughout the centuries. It

150-407: A Union soldier. Another notable site is the grave of George Pressley Trout, who is buried there with his wife and his horse. James B. Rivers, the village's first African American police chief, is at rest there on a hillside facing the mountain. The cemetery is still in use. Stone Mountain is at the western base of the quartz monzonite dome monadnock of the same name. While Stone Mountain city proper

180-502: Is completely within DeKalb County, the postal regions designated and traditionally considered as Stone Mountain include portions of DeKalb and Gwinnett Counties. According to the State of Georgia , the city has an area of 1.7 square miles (4.4 km ), of which 0.62% is water. As of the 2020 United States census , there were 6,703 people, 2,351 households, and 1,578 families residing in

210-517: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Amira Unplugged Daugherty was born in Stone Mountain, Georgia , where she grew up in a musical household. Her parents encouraged her to join band and orchestra in school, where she played the clarinet and violin. Daugherty earned an associate degree in criminal justice from Georgia State University at age 18. In 2019 she graduated with

240-603: The Civil War . Stone Mountain Village went unscathed until the Battle of Atlanta , when it was destroyed by men under the command of General James B. McPherson on July 19, 1864. Several antebellum homes were spared as they were used as hospitals. The railroad depot's roof burned, but the building stood, owing to its 2-foot-thick granite walls. From the village's destruction in July 1864 until November, Union forces scavenged Stone Mountain and

270-588: The Klan began to erode when the State of Georgia began to acquire the mountain and surrounding property in 1958. In 1960, Governor Ernest Vandiver condemned the property the state had purchased in order to void the perpetual easements Venable had granted the Klan. This ended any official link between Stone Mountain and the Klan. During the civil rights movement 's March on Washington , on August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. referred to Stone Mountain in his iconic " I Have

300-503: The area was rebuilt as Stone Mountain granite was again in demand for construction across the nation. A significant portion of the quarry's work force were African Americans, but they were generally excluded from areas where white families lived, so a shantytown, Shermantown, came into being at the southeast side of the village; its name was a reference to Union General William T. Sherman . In 1868, Reverend R. M. Burson organized Bethsaida Baptist Church to serve Shermantown. A church building

330-570: The city limits. Most residents in the city limits are zoned to Stone Mountain Elementary School. Some areas are zoned to Rockbridge Elementary School, outside of the city limits. All residents of Stone Mountain are zoned to: Stone Mountain Middle School, and Stone Mountain High School ; the middle school and the high school are outside the city limits. Georgia Military College (GMC) has

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360-546: The city. Stone Mountain is governed by a council-manager form of government . Citizens elect a mayor and six council members who are all elected at-large . The terms of office are four years, with elections staggered every two years. Daily city operations are managed by an appointed professional city manager. Services provided by the city include police, public works, code enforcement, and municipal court. The city also has standing commissions for historic preservation, downtown development, and planning & zoning. The city holds

390-503: The downtown development authority. The proceeds help fund festivals and other public events for the community. Most of the shops and buildings on Main Street were built right after the turn of the 20th century and maintain many of the original facades. This has provided an appropriate backdrop for a number of filming projects, ranging from period pieces to those requiring a quaint village setting. Parts of motion pictures like Footloose (2011) and Need for Speed (2014) were filmed in

420-457: The event's organizer, John Graves. The next year, the village again hosted the event, which featured caskets, marble, embroidery, brooms, bedspreads, vegetables, blooded stock, wheat, farm tools, and a magnetic telegraph. Stone Mountain hosted the event until 1850, when it moved to Macon. Though DeKalb County voted against secession from the United States , it was not spared the devastation of

450-582: The following month. Her second single, "Help Me Help You Out," released on February 3, 2023. She is also part of the Deaf community , being completely deaf in her left ear. Stone Mountain, Georgia Stone Mountain is a city in DeKalb County, Georgia , United States. The population was 6,703 according in 2020. Stone Mountain is in the eastern part of DeKalb County and is a suburb of Atlanta that encompasses nearly 1.7 square miles. It lies near and touches

480-417: The historical Muskogee Creek nation who first met the settlers in the early colonial period. The Treaty of Indian Springs in 1821 opened a large swath of Georgia for settlement by non-Native Americans on former Creek Indian land, including present-day Stone Mountain Village. In 1822, the area that now makes up the city was made a part of the newly formed DeKalb County . By the 1820s, Rock Mountain, as it

510-405: The house of Andrew Johnson." ) About 1839 Aaron Cloud, who also had a hotel, built a wooden observation tower, octagonal like a lighthouse and 150 feet (46 m) high, along with a restaurant and club, at the mountain's summit. A storm destroyed the tower in 1849; in 1851, Thomas Henry built a smaller, 80 feet (24 m) tower, with telescopes so it could serve as an observatory . Visitors to

540-444: The mountain traveled by rail and road, then hiked up the 1.3-mile (2.1 km) mountaintop trail to the top. By 1850, Stone Mountain had become a popular destination for Atlanta urbanites who endured the four-hour round trip by rail just to experience its natural beauty, lodging, and attractions. Granite quarrying at the mountain was the area's lifeblood for decades, employing many thousands. The excellent grade of building stone from

570-564: The mountain was used in many notable structures, including the locks of the Panama Canal , the roof of the bullion depository at Fort Knox , Philadelphia's Liberty National Building, and the steps in the east wing of the U.S. Capitol . In August 1846, New Gibraltar hosted Georgia's first state fair, then known as the Agriculture Fair and Internal Improvement Jubilee. The fair had just one exhibit—three horses and two cows, both belonging to

600-604: The online response, she was invited to audition for American Idol , where she performed Stand Up by Cynthia Erivo and a spoken word piece called "Anxiety Eviction". However, despite receiving three yeses from the judges, her audition was not broadcast on the show. She was also invited to participate in MTV 's Becoming A Popstar , which she ultimately placed second in. In October 2022 Daugherty took part in Pepsi's Music Lab. She released her first official single, "Work Till The Mornin'",

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660-477: The surrounding area, taking corn, wheat, cotton, cattle, and other goods. On November 15, 1864, between 12,000 and 15,000 Union troops marched through Stone Mountain and further destroyed the rail lines. The rails were rendered useless by heating them over burning railroad ties, then twisting them around trees. The term Sherman's neckties was coined for this form of destruction. After the Civil War ended, housing in

690-635: The village. The growing number of television show credits include The Vampire Diaries , Kevin (Probably) Saves the World , MacGyver , and the Netflix science fiction/horror series Stranger Things . Stone Mountain Village is home to a number of community, civic, and outreach organizations: The children of Stone Mountain are served by the DeKalb County Public Schools . Stone Mountain Elementary School and Champion Theme Middle School are within

720-460: The western base of the geological formation of the same name . Locals often call the city "Stone Mountain Village" to distinguish it from the larger unincorporated area traditionally considered Stone Mountain and Stone Mountain Park . Stone Mountain's history traces back to before the time of European invasion and settlement, with local burial mounds dating back hundreds of years built by the ancestors of

750-423: Was called Crystal Mountain by 16th-century Spanish explorer Juan Pardo when he visited in 1567. The Creek Indians who inhabited the area at that time used a name translating to "Lone Mountain". Around the turn of the 19th century, settlers called it Rock Mountain or Rock Fort Mountain. By the end of the 1830s, Stone Mountain had become the generally accepted name. Like the mountain, the village formed at its base

780-593: Was initially known as Rock Mountain but was incorporated as New Gibraltar in 1839 by an act of the General Assembly. In 1847 the Georgia legislature changed the name to Stone Mountain. The Stone Mountain Cemetery, established around 1850, is a microcosm of the village's past. It is the final resting place for roughly 200 unknown Confederate soldiers. 71 known Confederate soldiers are buried there, along with James Sprayberry,

810-433: Was nearby." Rail service did not reach the town, by then New Gibraltar, until 1845. A post office was created in 1834 on the old Augusta Road, and Andrew Johnson, called the founder of New Gibraltar and first mayor, around whose house the city limits were drawn, built a hotel along the road in 1836. ("An 1843 amendment to the act of incorporation extended the town limits to 600 yards (550 m) in every direction from

840-520: Was replaced by stone in 1920. Though Shermantown has mostly integrated into the growing Stone Mountain Village, it retains its own distinct community. The year 1915 was when the Ku Klux Klan , a white supremacist organization, was reborn. Members assembled at Stone Mountain with permission of quarry owner Samuel Venable , an active member. Their activities, including annual cross-burnings , continued for over 40 years, but Stone Mountain's association with

870-489: Was then built under Reverend F. M. Simons at what is now 853 Fourth Street. Simons was among a delegation of southern African American pastors to meet with Sherman in Washington, D.C. after the war to discuss the treatment of the freedmen. Bethsaida Baptist is still an active part of the Stone Mountain Village. By the 20th century, much of Shermantown's original structures had been replaced. Bethsaida's original wooden structure

900-420: Was then called, was "a major travel center", with an inn for travelers. A stagecoach line linking the village with Georgia's capital, Milledgeville , began in 1825. Another stage line ran to Winder and Athens . In 1828 another stage line began trips to Dahlonega , and a fourth connected the community with Macon . "Hundreds of people visited Rock Mountain in the summer [of 1828] and...a house of entertainment

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