Ken Anderson, a wonderful source for Dunwoody history, told me several years ago that the land where Dunwoody High School is located was once home to the Martin farm. He remembered they lived on the land in the 1940s and 1950s, but they owned that land at least as early as the 1920s.

I first learned of Hilbert Margol during the pandemic. I attended a zoom presentation where he shared the story of himself and his twin brother Howard during WW2. The twin brothers, part of the 42nd Infantry, are Dachau liberators. Jan Slimming arranged for me to attend the presentation to the Atlanta Chapter of the Churchill Society. You can read this history on the Appen Media/Dunwoody Crier website here. It is also available in a Past Tense GA blog post from 2021.

You might recall the Milk Jug store if you lived in Atlanta in the 1960s. There is still a small store with the classic shape of a Milk Jug and the Milk Jug sign in Tucker at 3988 Lawrenceville Highway. My family always had Mathis Dairy milk delivery, but occasionally when we had an emergency milk shortage in the home, Milk Jug was an easy drive through store.

The name New Hope comes from the church that was once next door to this cemetery. The church was New Hope Presbyterian. It was the third church to be established in Dunwoody, after Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church and Providence Baptist Church.