Via Wikipedia.
Here’s a 2011 photo of the old main factory building of the Bona Allen Company, a tannery and leather goods business in Buford. According to Wikipedia, “it became the nation’s largest producer of hand-tooled saddles, bridles, horse collars, postal bags, cowboy boots, and shoes and had a contract to supply the sporting equipment giant, Spalding, with raw material for the manufacture of baseballs and baseball mitts.” The company, which employed 2,200 people in its heyday, closed in 1945.
The building at 554 West Main Street now is a commercial building called Tannery Row. It was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2005.
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