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unusual facts about Buckhead


Pine Lake, Georgia

The corporation sold lots around a small fishing lake to Atlantans who lived in (then) faraway areas like Buckhead for use as a weekend retreat.


Hardy Pace

The area he settled is known today as Vinings, Georgia, but at the time was known as (Pace's) Crossroads and, later, Paces (now a neighborhood of Buckhead).

Historic ferries of the Atlanta area

Continuing east, West Paces Ferry Road becomes East Paces Ferry Road after intersecting Peachtree Road in Buckhead's entertainment and nightlife district.

Morris Brandon Elementary School

Founded in 1947 as part of the Fulton County school district, it has been a part of the Atlanta Public Schools since the annexation of Buckhead in 1952.

North Fulton High School

Atlanta International School — a private grade school and high school that moved in 1995 into the former North Fulton High School building in Buckhead, Atlanta, Fulton County, Georgia, USA

Peachtree Creek

Because it is usually called just Peachtree Battle (even by GDOT on its overpass of Interstate 75), that part of Buckhead is often called the same, which in turn gave rise to a local play called Peachtree Battle.

Phillip E. Hill, Sr.

One of the three fraud schemes involved sales of more than 50 luxury estates in several of metro Atlanta’s “country club” subdivisions and more than 250 condominiums in eight complexes in Dunwoody, Buckhead, Midtown and downtown Atlanta.

Piedmont Hospital

Piedmont Hospital is a major hospital at 2002 Peachtree Road at Collier Road in the Buckhead area of Atlanta, Georgia.

Roy LeCraw

In 2002 a lamp was installed in his honor at 2970 Peachtree Road in Buckhead.


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