Simmons Plating Works, 393 Whitehall Street
Date: 1952
According to this Georgia Dept. of Natural Resources report (it's a pdf file) Simmons was a former electroplating company that abandoned this site and left one hell of a mess. "Approx. 305,000 gallons of hazardous waste was removed from this site. Of this, approx. 240,000 gallons was electroplating sludge pumped from a 30 foot pit inside the building."
Yikes. The report also mentions that the waste was removed at a cost of $945,000 paid for by taxpayers via the federal Superfund. Thanks, Simmons!
GSU FILE: LBGPNS13-176a
TOP PHOTO COURTESY SPECIAL COLLECTIONS DEPT, PULLEN LIBRARY, GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY
Date: 04/04/04
