One of the Venable Brothers were responsible for a cross burning on a dome at a mountain park in which state?
Venable Brothers 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. The brothers owned rock quarries. Sam Venable was involved in the resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan and in the creation of the Confederate memorial on Stone Mountain 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.
Delabar State Park Delabar State Park is an Illinois state park on 89 acre in Henderson County, Illinois, United States. Two brothers, Roy and Jack Delabar donated the site of the park in 1959. The park was named after the two brothers, and officially opened in 1960.