The civil-rights leader's burial place is just east of Ebenezer Baptist Church, where King preached. He had originally been buried in South-View Cemetery in Atlanta, where his father is still buried, but was moved to a marble crypt in 1970. The crypt is built on a pedestal in the middle of a reflecting pool and bears the inscription, "Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. 1929-1968, 'Free at last, free at last, thank God almighty, I'm free at last.'" In 1976, a memorial park was built around the reflecting pool.
Constructed to remember the more than 3,000 unidentified Confederate soldiers buried in Atlanta's Oakland Cemetery, the Lion of Atlanta depicts a wounded lion grasping a Confederate flag. It was crafted in 1894 by Thomas Brady Sr. and modeled after Switzerland's famous Lion of Lucerne. When it was constructed, it used the largest block of marble that had been mined in Georgia.
Made from bronze and marble, the Confederate Statue in Gainesville, Georgia, is one of the state's few Confederate memorial statues that feature a soldier standing at the ready. The women who made the decision to erect this statue wanted the figure standing erect, rather than lying in the typical resting pose. This required much discussion back and forth with the Chicago-based firm that constructed the statue. The statue was finally dedicated in 1909, two years after the United Daughters of the Confederacy began the venture.
Located in Thomson, Georgia, the McDuffie County Confederate Monument was constructed to remember that area's Confederate soldiers killed in battle. The monument has stood in front of the McDuffie Courthouse since 1896. The front of the monument features a pair of crossed sabers. The inscription reads: "They sleep the sleep of our noble slain defeated, yet without a stain. Proudly and peacefully."