Harry S. Dixon and his fraternity brothers in Company D, Twenty-Eighth Mississippi Volunteer Calvary, Confederate States of America, had become members of the Sigma Chi Fraternity in college before the war. On the night of September 17, 1864, after the fall of Atlanta, they met in an abandoned cabin hereabouts and, with the sound of battle in their ears, organized what they called the Constantine Chapter of Sigma Chi, hoping it would help their fraternity survive in the South regardless of the outcome of the war. Their dedication to their fraternity through the despair of defeat and the uncertainty of retreat was held up as an inspiration. The memorial park was made possible through the cooperation of Clayton County and gifts from thousands of Sigma Chis across the United States of America and Canada, and was dedicated on September 17, 1979. Sigma Chi is presented within a broader view of the American college fraternity as an institution whose chapters, like miniature democracies, are expected to observe the principles and hopes on which America was founded, fostering social, literary, and character development, scholastic achievement, the betterment of mankind, responsibility for the well-being of all, and bonds that last a lifetime.