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BROOKHAVEN

On behalf of the city of Brookhaven, it is
my pleasure to welcome you as a member
of our friendly and diverse community
of over 50,000 residents. Within its
borders, the city has 14 picturesque 2017 was the “Year of Progress” in East Lake (1906).
landscaped parks and is home to the Brookhaven.
iconic Oglethorpe University. With great Development continued when lots along
restaurant and entertainment venues, The city spent the year improving city parks Club Drive and Stovall were offered for sale
varied shopping centers, world-class with new or upgraded playgrounds and open by Samuel Stovall. By 1928, eight houses
medical facilities, and convenient mass fi elds. The city also purchased 33 acres of had been built on these lots. Most homes
transit systems, Brookhaven is the place greenspace near DeKalb-Peachtree Airport. in Country Club Estates and on the Carleton
to live, work and play. The property, located west of Clairmont Road land were built during the Depression and
at the intersection with Tobey Road, contains before 1942.
I encourage you to obtain valuable mature trees, a stream, wildlife and native
city information/resources by visiting plants. Brookhaven’s older homes include designs
www.brookhavenga.gov. Or download by a number of well-known Atlanta architects
the Brookhaven Connect app to your The city is also home to the future Children’s of this period.
smartphone to make to make a service Healthcare of Atlanta Center for Advanced
request or report a problem. The city of Pediatrics facility and the Hawks/Emory In March of 1984, Brookhaven resident John
Brookhaven prides itself on providing Sports Medicine Complex. R. Brannen submitted a Historic District
high-quality services to its residents. I Information Form on the neighborhood to the
am always interested in your input. If Brookhaven has grown consistently with new Historic Preservation Section of the Georgia
you have any questions or issues, don’t developments since incorporating in 2012. Department of Natural Resources. Through
hesitate to pick up a phone and call Brannen’s and his wife Bettie’s efforts, the
my offi ce at (404) 637-0462 or email The city was previously home to Creek Historic Preservation Section fi led for listing
me at john.ernst@brookhavenga.gov. Indians. John L. Evins began a large Brookhaven in the U.S. National Register
Again, welcome and hope you will enjoy plantation in the area now known as of Historic Places in December 1985. The
living in Brookhaven! Brookhaven in the early 1800s, according National Park Service named the Brookhaven
to the Historic Brookhaven Neighborhood Historic District on Jan. 14, 1986.
Association.
The city features single-family homes,
Around 1900, Atlantans began building mixed-use developments, restaurants, shops,
summer cottages in Brookhaven. In 1910, parks and the Brookhaven Library.
a group of investors from the Mechanical
and Manufacturers Club purchased the land The city also has a large international
making up the Brookhaven Country Club community along Buford Highway and
property and lots immediately surrounding Lynwood Park, which was historically an
it for a development called “Brookhaven African-American neighborhood.
Estates.”
Brookhaven is home to Oglethorpe University,
The Brookhaven Country Club was a private liberal arts college, Cross Keys
John Ernst
John Ernst incorporated in October of that year. In High School, the Marist School, and several
Mayor, City of Brookhaven
Mayor, City of Brookhaven January 1912, the Brookhaven Country Club elementary schools.
opened as Atlanta’s second golf course after
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