Course Description

Instructor: Susan Barnard

Buckhead is one of the oldest communities in the Atlanta area. This course traces its development beginning in the Paleo-Indian and Muscogee/Creek Indian periods (8000 - 6000 BC - 1821). White settlers moved into the area after the Treaty of Indian Springs, 1821. The community was touched by the War of 1812, the Creek Indian War (1813-1814), and the Civil War. When the streetcar came to Buckhead in 1907, many of the well-to-do people moved from downtown to Buckhead joining the farmers, dairymen and potters. They built beautiful homes along roads such as Peachtree, West Paces Ferry, and Tuxedo, and established churches and businesses. In the 1920s, Buckhead became the headquarters of the Ku Klux Klan. The course ends with the opening of Lenox Square in 1959.

Course 6-Weeks