Table of Contents

Foreword
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction

Prehistoric Buckhead

1770
Standing Peach Tree

1812-1814
Standing Peach Tree

1821-1833
Pioneer Days

1820s-1830s
A Road By Any Other Name

1830s
Railroads

1838
Buck's Head

1843
Marthasville

1850s
Where There's a Mill There's a Way

1860-1861
Pre-Civil War Period in Atlanta

1864
Buckhead and the Civil War

1865
Lumber

1870s
Citizens, Churches, and Calamities

1880s
One-Room Schoolhouses

1870s-1880s
As the Wheel Turns

1890s
President Benjamin Harrison Looks for Buckhead

1900
Turn-of-the-Century Buckhead

1903-1910
Buckhead Retreat

1900-1910
More Children, More Schools

1912
Johnson Town

1911-1916
Buckhead for Sale?

1915
The Leo M. Frank Case

1917-1919
Drugstores, Estates,a nd Turtle-Back Roads

1920s
The Ku Klux Klan

1920-1924
Rename Buckhead?

1920s-1930s
Diaries

1925-1929
Buckhead, Such a Lovely Neighborhood

1925-1929
A Surge of New Enterprises

Late 1920s
Their Hearts Were Young And Gay

1928
A Crime Spree

1929
Fritz Orr Camp

1930s
The Great Depression

Early 1930s
Colonial Dames of Buckhead

Early 1930s
Race Relations in Buckhead

1930s
Prison Camp in Buckhead

1934-1939
Trolleys, Clubs, and Snowstorms

Mid to Late 1930s
Prohibition, Police and Private Schools

1940-1941
Buckhead Before World War II

1940s
Buckhead Goes to War

1940s
Buckhead During the War

1945
Buckhead Life Following the War

1952
Annexation

1950s
A New Buckhead Emerges

The End of the Story...or Is It?

Footnotes
Index