Rail terminal at Atlanta’s Chattahoochee Brick site canceled

The site, near the Perimeter and on the Chattahoochee River, had been the location of the Chattahoochee Brick Co., owned by former Atlanta Mayor James English. It relied on horrific work practices, using forced convict labor to create bricks.

Bita Honarvar / Special to WABE

Updated at 5:25 p.m. Thursday

Norfolk Southern is canceling its plans to build a rail terminal in northwest Atlanta on a site that had been the location of forced labor around the turn of the 20th century.

The company had announced it was pausing the project last weekend after the city of Atlanta asked a federal agency to intervene and stop the project.