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Dungeness on Cumberland Island, Georgia, is a ruined mansion that is part of a historic district that was the home of several families significant in American history.The mansion was named after a nearby sandy spit at the southern end of the island, first recorded in a land grant petition in 1765 and almost certainly named after the Dungeness headland, on the south coast of England.
Druid Hills was Atlanta's second major suburb, after Inman Park, and as one of Olmsted's major works, had a significant influence on future suburban development. [ 2 ] Olmsted's 1893 plan for developer Joel Hurt 's Kirkwood Land Company was organized around Ponce de Leon Avenue , a broad parkway on either side of a series of parks.
his mansion at 1500 Ponce de Leon Avenue in Druid Hills, built 1916, until his death in 1929. It is now the Saint John Chrysostom Melkite Greek Catholic Church. A home of one of Asa Griggs Candler's children: "Callanwolde", the home of Charles Howard Candler from 1920 to 1959. After his death it was donated to Emory University, and was ...
A historic 5,000-square-foot home in Old Town Bluffton was a ravaged by a house fire just days before Christmas. All occupants inside the two-story house were able to safely escape the blaze ...
Judge William Wilson House (1857) Lemuel P. Grant Mansion (1856) Georgia Railroad Freight Depot (1869), oldest building located within city limits when built Tullie Smith House (1840), moved from original location in North Druid Hills to Atlanta. Various buildings can lay claim to the title of oldest structure in Atlanta.
Druid Hills is a community which includes both a census-designated place (CDP) in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, as well as a neighborhood of the city of Atlanta. The CDP's population was 14,568 at the 2010 census. [ 4 ]
The rules were enacted in 1994 for the sole purpose of protecting one of the South's few remaining communities of people known as Gullah, or Geechee in Georgia, whose ancestors worked island slave ...
Three boys, 6, 12, and 13 years old, were killed. A 36-year-old woman, a 74-year-old woman and a 74-year-old man also died, county officials said.