Brookwood Hills

by Betsy Crosby, Elaine Luxemburger, Foreword by Ed Helms (Foreword by)

Overview

When Benjamin Franklin Burdett and his son Arthur developed their streetcar suburb of Brookwood Hills in 1922, they chose land on the cusp of change, straddling the city and county line. The area, once populated by Native Americans, was the site of the opening shots of the bloody Battle of Peachtree Creek on July 20, 1864. Affluent homeowners in the early 20th century made this stretch of Peachtree Street, named "Brookwood" after society doyenne Emma Thompson's country mansion, one of Atlanta's most elegant neighborhoods. Today, Brookwood Hills, which is listed in the National Register of Historic Places, is a leafy enclave of 350 homes within the city of Atlanta. Visitors call it an urban oasis; to city planners, it is a premier example of traditional neighborhood design. To the generations of families who have grown up in its homes, played at its park and pool, joined its clubs, and fought its battles, Brookwood Hills is something much more—it is their hometown.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781467111225
Publisher:	Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date:	12/09/2013
Series:	Images of America Series
Pages:	128
Sales rank:	1,071,140
Product dimensions:	6.30(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

In assembling the images for this book, authors and long-term Brookwood Hills residents Betsy Crosby and Elaine Luxemburger combed library archives and the albums of current and former residents to tell the story of this unique community that has thrived for over nine decades.

Table of Contents

Foreword 6

Acknowledgments 7

Introduction 8

1 Out of the Wilderness: The 1800s 11

2 The Most Fashionable Suburb: 1890s-1920 21

3 Announcing Brookwood Hills: 1920s-1970s 33

4 Brookwood Hills Grows Up: 1920s-1960s 53

5 Where Peachtree Meets Brookwood: 1920s-1960s 79

6 New Energy with a New Generation: 1970s-2000 95

7 Sustaining the Oasis: After the Millennium 119