Stone Mountain Holds Groundbreaking for City Hall

"We'll dig a little dirt and get this thing started," Mayor Patricia Wheeler said, and with that, city council members and officials grabbed a shovel and did just that, symbolically breaking ground for the new city hall.

There wasn't a lot of pomp and circumstance, but the event was momentous for Stone Mountain. The government, the police department and the municipal court will move from the historic train depot to the new building at the corner of Second and Main streets. 

"We hope to be finished before the end of the year with the city hall," the mayor said.

The new building will be more spacious and functional than the depot, part of which was built before the Civil War.  And that historic building will become a museum and visitor's center, a move the city hopes will help it attract more tourists. 

Georgia State Senator Steve Henson, Mayor Pro Tem Chakira Johnson Sallee and city council members  Nan Nash, Steve Higgins, Susan Coletti, Richard Mailman, Cyril Mungal, City Manager Barry Amos, Police Chief Chancey Troutman and Municipal Court Clerk Emily Sanders were among those who took part in the ceremony.

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