Honest Alley
Honest Alley earned its name in the late 1800s and early 1900s as the spot where mule and horse traders gathered to deal in good faith, shipping livestock back by rail to barns and stables that lined the narrow passage off the downtown square; the original stables burned in a 1939 fire, and stone walls from that era still stand among today's revitalized shops. Local lore holds that a violent overnight storm once toppled a great oak in the adjacent Lawrenceville Cemetery, disturbing the graves beneath it. As the legend is told on the city's ghost tours, a teenage boarding-school student named Edgar Dunlap, racing home before curfew through the dark, dank alley to escape a tornado, came face to face with hollow-eyed skeletons risen from the uprooted ground and blacked out where he stood. Guides say the merchants whose back doors open onto the alley have left those walls untouched ever since, careful not to wake the dead again, and that on stormy nights the corpses still seem to come dancing down Honest Alley.
📍 Honest Alley, off E. Crogan St, downtown Lawrenceville, GA 30046, Lawrenceville, GA · Get directions