Honest Alley
Honest Alley earned its name in the late 1800s and early 1900s, when mule and horse traders gathered to deal in good faith, shipping livestock by rail to the stables lining this narrow passage off the downtown square; the original stables burned in a 1939 fire, though stone walls from that era still stand among today's revitalized shops. Local lore holds that an overnight storm once toppled a great oak in the adjacent Lawrenceville Cemetery, disturbing the graves beneath.
As the city's ghost tours tell it, a teenage boarding-school student named Edgar Dunlap, racing home to beat a tornado, met hollow-eyed skeletons risen from the ground and blacked out. Guides say merchants have left those walls untouched ever since, and that on stormy nights the corpses still come dancing down Honest Alley.
📍 Honest Alley, off E. Crogan St, downtown Lawrenceville, GA 30046, Lawrenceville, GA · Get directions