In 1956, an estate known as Joyeuse was chosen as the site for a major shopping center to be known as Lenox Square. Atlanta annexed Buckhead and a number of other nearby communities in 1952, following legislature which expanded Atlanta's city boundaries. The annexation of Buckhead was put to a vote in 1947, but it was rejected by Buckhead voters. Fearing that the city's "Negro population is growing by leaps and bounds", and was "taking more white territory inside Atlanta", Hartsfield sought to annex these communities to counteract the threat of increasing political power for the city's Black residents. Hartsfield sought to annex Buckhead, and a number of other predominantly White suburbs of Atlanta. ĭuring the mid-1940s, Atlanta Mayor William B. This process, which entailed both eminent domain and "outright coercion" displaced over 400 families. During the mid-1940s, Fulton County decided to acquire the land comprising Macedonia Park to build what is now Frankie Allen Park. In 1930, Henry Aaron Alexander built one of the largest homes on Peachtree Road, a 15,000-square-foot (1,400 m 2) house with 33 rooms and 13 bathrooms. ĭespite the stock market crash of 1929, lavish mansions were still constructed in Buckhead throughout the Great Depression. Predominantly black neighborhoods within Buckhead included Johnsontown, Piney Grove, Savagetown, and Macedonia Park. Simultaneously, a number of Black enclaves began popping up in Buckhead, following events like the 1906 Atlanta race riot and the Great Atlanta fire of 1917, which drove black residents from the city center. A cycling event, "Georgia Rides to the Capitol," on Piedmont Roadīuckhead remained dominated by country estates until after World War I, when many of Atlanta's wealthy began building mansions among the area's rolling hills. In the 1890s, Buckhead was rechristened Atlanta Heights but by the 1920s it was again "Buckhead". By the late 1800s, Buckhead had become a rural vacation spot for wealthy Atlantans. Prior to this, the settlement was called Irbyville. The name "Buckhead" comes from a story that Irby killed a large buck deer and placed the head in a prominent location. Irby subsequently established a general store and tavern at the northwest corner of the intersection.
In 1838, Henry Irby purchased 202 1/2 acres surrounding the present intersection of Peachtree, Roswell, and West Paces Ferry roads from Daniel Johnson for $650. Buckhead is the third largest business district within the Atlanta city limits, behind Downtown and Midtown, and a major commercial and financial center of the Southeast.īuckhead is anchored by a core of high-rise office buildings, hotels, shopping centers, restaurants and condominiums centered around the intersection of Peachtree Road and Piedmont Road near Georgia State Route 400, the Buckhead MARTA station, and Lenox Square. Buckhead is the uptown commercial and residential district of the city of Atlanta, Georgia, comprising approximately the northernmost fifth of the city.
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