On a summer morning in August 1999, the first shoppers arriving at the north entrance in Buford saw a 150-foot tower topped by a 12-foot statue of Button Gwinnett.
Gwinnett County takes its name from him, and he was one of Georgia’s three signers of the Declaration of Independence.
Inside the mall, five themed sections – Coastal, Plains, Piedmont, and Mountains among them – were meant to take visitors through different parts of Georgia…