Connie Propes and other neighbors where Wal-Mart is building a grocery and installing gas pumps on Thompson Bridge Road in Gainesville are researching the history of the area, in particular Slaughterhouse Creek, which might be affected by rainfall runoff from the development. The creek eventually feeds into Lake Lanier. Their findings uncover some interesting history of the area, which was pretty much “out in the country” until the 1950s.
Slaughterhouse Creeks history includes mines, meat operation