Georgia Archives

In 1998 engineers determined that the downtown building was sinking due to ground water and nearby interstate construction.

[7] After the archives were moved out to the current facility in Morrow, the old downtown building, sometimes called the "White Ice Cube,"[8] was occasionally used as a movie filming location, such as for Ant-Man in 2014.

[9] On March 5, 2017 the former downtown archive location was imploded so the site could be cleared in preparation for a new judicial complex.

[8] The Nathan Deal Judicial Center opened on the site of the original archives location in February 2020.

Other collections include records of interest to genealogists, land surveyors, state and local government officials, teachers, and students.

A Facebook page called Georgians Against Closing State Archives[13] gained over 2,000 members in less than a week and a petition on Change.org collected over 17,000 signatures.

On October 18, 2012, Governor Deal issued a press release announcing that the Georgia Archives would remain open.