Past Events
Phoenix Flies: A Tour of Harmony Grove Cemetery
3.06.10 | Corner of West Paces Ferry and Chatham Roads| No Reservations Required | Free
Who was James "Whispering" Smith and what do Julia Roberts, Dorothy Shay (The Park Avenue Hillbilly) and an Atlanta Mayor have in common? During the Atlanta Preservation Center's Phoenix Flies Program, Buckhead Heritage Society President Wright Mitchell revealed the answer and talked about the history and restoration of Harmony Grove Cemetery.
Founded in 1870, Harmony Grove is one of the few remaining landmarks that hearken back to Buckhead's origins as a rural farming community. Abandoned and neglected for decades, the cemetery recently found new life as a historic attraction and green space in Buckhead due to the efforts of the Buckhead Heritage Society, which was awarded a 2009 Preservation Award for Excellence in Rehabilitation from the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation.
Photographs by Tim Small
An Interlude with Edward L. Daugherty, FASLA
10.07.09 | Atlanta History Center's McElreath Hall | Limited Availability | Free
Co-sponsored by Buckhead Heritage and the Cherokee Garden Library, the Interlude with Edward Daugherty was a celebration of Buckhead's landscape: a landscape of rolling hills, precious hardwood forests, and meandering streams which for many years was sensitively developed into what are now some of the most beautiful historic neighborhoods in the country. Mr. Daugherty discussed many of the Buckhead landscapes in his portfolio, and his remarks were followed by a question and answer session and tours of his exhibit "Edward L. Daugherty, A Southern Landscape Architect: Exploring New Forms." The final day for the exhibit is Saturday, October 10, 2009.
07.10.09 | Bobby Jones Golf Course | Limited Availability | $5 Members, $10 Non-Members
Note: SOLD OUT
Over 125 people joined us for celebratory cocktails and a lecture by Author Robert Jenkins, Sr. who astounded us by a detailed account of the Battle of Peachtree Creek, one of the Atlanta Campaign’s most fateful battles. The following day he led a driving and walking tour of the battlefield from Bobby Jones Golf Course to Ansley Park with a stop at Tanyard Creek Park.
Mr. Jenkins, a Dalton attorney and author, recently completed a meticulously researched book about the Battle of Peachtree Creek. The lecture is scheduled to coincide with the 145th Anniversary of the Battle and the lecture will take place at the Bobby Jones Golf Course Clubhouse, on the very ground where the Battle was fought! To learn more about our speaker and his book, click here, and to read recent media coverage, click here.
05.03.09 | New Hope A.M.E. Church, 3012 Arden Road | Open to the Public | Free
Approximately 50 people gathered to rededicate two historic cemeteries. Rev. Philip Chisholm of New Hope A.M.E.Church conducted a church service celebrating the restoration of New Hope Cemetery and of Harmony Grove Cemetery and conducted re-consecration ceremonies at both historic cemeteries. View Details
04.28.09 | Lumiere Gallery, 425 Peachtree Hills Ave. | Limited Availability | Free for Members
NOTE : SOLD OUT
Approximately 40 people joined us for a cocktail tour of Richard Pare’s exhibit, “The Last Vanguard: Soviet Modernist Architecture, 1922-1932.” Merrill Elam, of Mack Scogin Merrill Elam Architects and designer of the Buckhead Library, discussed modern architecture and Richard Pare's photographs during what turned out to be a fascinating evening of conversations ranging from architecture to politics, to history, to historic preservation.
