In 1989, as Brookhaven Pharmacy on Peachtree Road was closing, Vivian Price wrote an article for the DeKalb New Era titled, “Cherry Cokes and Chicken Pox-Closing of Brookhaven Pharmacy Marks End of Era.” She begins with, “It was a sad day recently when employees and customers gathered to bid fond farewell to a north DeKalb institution-the Brookhaven Pharmacy.”

Theodore Roosevelt’s mother was Martha (Mittie) Bulloch of Roswell, and his father was Theodore Roosevelt, Sr. of New York. They married at Roswell Presbyterian Church in 1853. The President heard his mother tell stories of the place she grew up and in 1901 began thinking of a visit. Bulloch Hall still stands today, owned by the City of Roswell and supported by Friends of Bulloch, Inc.

In 1940, Oscar Lockhart was operating a pharmacy in Chamblee. He and wife Nelle, brother Thomas, daughter Ruth Lockhart Bean, son-in-law Albert Bean and one lodger all lived in the home on Chamblee Dunwoody Road. Lockhart’s Pharmacy was an independant pharmacy.

When I first wrote about the small old home at Murphey Candler Park in 2011, I knew the home as the Sea Scout Hut. Later, I learned it was used as a caretaker’s cottage for the park prior to the Sea Scouts. I went to Murphey Candler Park recently to see if the home still standing and it was. I have heard the city of Brookhaven plans to demolish the old home and it looks quite neglected at this point.

The story of Children’s Healthcare of Atlanta-Scottish Rite begins in 1915. According to Franklin Garrett’s “Atlanta and Environs,” the Scottish Rite Masons were the founders of Scottish Rite Hospital in 1915. The initial name was Scottish Rite Convalescent Home for Crippled Children. They started the hospital to serve the needs of families who could not pay. Two cottages on East Lake Drive were the first home of the hospital.

Ethel Gertrude Warren Spruill used to tell the story of giving directions to the home she shared with husband Stephen Spruill on what is now Ashford Dunwoody Road. She told visitors to travel north on Peachtree Road past Oglethorpe University and then turn left. Their house was the was the first one drivers would see.

The first hospital in Atlanta was St. Joseph’s, but the story of Emory St. Joseph’s Hospital begins in Dublin, Ireland. In 1831, Catherine McAuley began the Sisters of Mercy order, with the goal of helping the poor and the sick. She started twelve Mercy foundations in Ireland and two in England.

Lenox Square shopping center opened on August 3, 1959 with a ceremony at 9:45 a.m. The Atlanta Constitution covered the grand opening that day. Vice president of Lenox Square Inc. Chess Lagomarsino called the newly constructed shopping center “the biggest in the south.”

The Tilly School once sat about where the Crossroads Church of Dunwoody is located, at the intersection of Peeler Road and Tilly Mill Road. Prior to Crossroads, this was the location of North Peachtree Baptist Church.

The Tilly School, Tilly Mill, and Tilly Mill Road were named for the pioneer Tilly family that owned the land and had a home, farm and mill in the stretch between Peeler Road and North Peachtree Road. The family operated a cotton gin, sawmill and gristmill on their Dunwoody land.