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Top: Photograph of businesses
along Main Street, Lithonia, DeKalb County, Georgia, 1967.
From the
Vanishing
Georgia archives. Image dek288-85. Listed as "circa
1970" even though the photo says April 1967.
Bottom: April 2009. 42 years later, poor Lithonia is as
deserted as a western ghost town. Taking pictures in this town
reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode where the guy walks
around the empty streets yelling, "Where is everybody? Where
is everybody?"
Today's lesson in local history: The name Lithonia was created
by combining the Greek words Litho, meaning rock, and Onia,
meaning place. Many of the old businesses, churches, and
houses were constructed with granite from local quarries.
Nearby Stone Mountain is primarily composed of a rock called
Lithonia gneiss.
And... Brenda
Lee is from Lithonia. (PHOTOS AND TEXT
COURTESY OF
DAVID HENDERSON)
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