Groups call for work to stop on Chattahoochee Brick site, citing plant’s past, environmental concerns

Workers continued this week clearing the land at the site of the former Chattahoochee Brick Co. in northwest Atlanta.

Norfolk Southern, which has railroad tracks running alongside the old plant, is planning to use the site near I-285 as a fuel terminal.

But the use of forced labor and violence against Black workers at the site in the early 1900s has neighbors and community organizers calling for a memorial at the site instead.