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By Susan Kessler Barnard

Buckhead, a neighborhood 4 miles from downtown Atlanta, begun nearly 6,000 years in the past while the Paleo-Indians lived alongside the Chattahoochee River. by way of the mid-1700s, the Muscogee (Creek) Indians lived there within the village of status Peach Tree. They ceded a massive part of their land to Georgia in 1821, and from that cession got here Atlanta and Buckhead. Settlers arrived and operated river ferries, generators, and farms. whilst Henry Irby opened a tavern in 1838 and hung a buck�s head�either over the door or on a backyard post�the zone turned often called Buck�s Head. After the Civil warfare, black neighborhoods, faculties, and potteries have been confirmed. round the flip of the century, a few Atlanta citizens got land in Buckhead, outfitted cottages, and operated small farms. The streetcar used to be prolonged to Buckhead in 1907, and buddies buddies to the group. photos of the USA: Buckhead is an album of this as soon as quiet rural neighborhood sooner than it used to be annexed to the town of Atlanta in 1952.

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