Atlanta City Council Asks Norfolk Southern To Alter Chattahoochee Brick Plans

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October 13th, 2020

The site of the proposed industrial development has an ugly history that neighborhood advocates want to see memorialized.
The property was once the location of the Chattahoochee Brick Company, a factory that used convict labor, forcing people, mostly Black men, to work under awful, slave-like conditions decades after slavery was abolished.

BITA HONARVAR

Updated Wednesday at 8:52 p.m.

Atlanta City Council and other local officials are asking Norfolk Southern railroad to change its plans for a fuel terminal near the Perimeter.

The site of the proposed industrial development has an ugly history that neighborhood advocates want to see memorialized.

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