Buckhead; a community four miles from downtown Atlanta; began approximately 6;000 years ago when the Paleo-Indians lived along the Chattahoochee River. By the mid-1700s; the Muscogee (Creek) Indians lived there in the village of Standing Peach Tree. They ceded a major portion of their land to Georgia in 1821; and from that cession came Atlanta and Buckhead. Settlers arrived and operated river ferries; mills; and farms. When Henry Irby opened a tavern in 1838 and hung a buck�s head�either over the door or on a yard post�the area became known as Buck�s Head. After the Civil War; black neighborhoods; schools; and potteries were established. Around the turn of the century; some Atlanta residents bought land in Buckhead; built cottages; and operated small farms. The streetcar was extended to Buckhead in 1907; and friends followed friends to the community. Images of America: Buckhead is an album of this once quiet rural community before it was annexed to the City of Atlanta in 1952.
#1260145 in eBooks 2007-08-29 2007-08-29File Name: B009ACMNEA
Review
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Historic photographs of Isle RoyaleBy Arthur DigbeeThis book is part of a series. "Images of America." consisting of books with old photographs of localities around the United States. As youd expect. this one provides archival photographs of what is now Isle Royale National Park. Because the park now has no permanent residents. the book focuses on the settlement period of loggers. miners. fishers and the early tourism and summer home industries. There are paragraph-long captions for most pictures. providing pieces of a history of Isle Royale but not a full history by any means.Not all of the pictures actually come from Isle Royale. Most innocuously. the pre-wreck photographs of ships that sunk off Isle Royale generally come from other places. Somewhat less innocuously. the chapter on the mining period uses many pictures of ostensibly similar facilities from the region. Finally. the chapter on the pre-Columbian period obviously cant use any contemporary photographs at all. Instead. the authors use various other types of photographs. including photographs of dioramas from museums. Id have skipped the dioramas and taken more photographs of artifacts from archaeological digs on the island instead.The book is most noteworthy for its pictures of summer visitors and of buildings that predate park establishment. Given the limitations mentioned in the previous paragraph. its not so good for the Indian or mining history of the island. The photographs of island fisheries might be of interest but I doubt that these houses and boats differ much from any other family fisheries around the Great Lakes.If you love looking at old photographs. or if. like me. you try to maintain an Isle Royale collection. this book is useful despite its limitations. For most other people. its probably not so interesting. It doesnt really have any competitors. so if you want historic photographs of Isle Royale. this is your book.
