The Atlanta Gateway Park is built on the site of a pre-Columbian Hopewell Indian settlement discovered at the turn of the century. Emory and Tulane both have artifacts taken from this site which is now preserved in asphalt. Furthermore, near the center of the original 300 acre development earth digging machines had scooped around an old Protestant graveyard leveling the ground below but leaving the high hill where the dead are buried stranded and looking like an apple core chewed all around with grave stones and a few trees occupying the stem end. It would seem that the historical function of the place is consistent with its current evolution into a contemporary cultural burial site.
John Howett, “The Great Southwest Industrial Sculpture Park”, Atlanta, GA, 1981
