Roswell Road was once a forty-foot-wide concrete road known as Roosevelt Boulevard between 1925 and 1927. The road was named for President Theodore Roosevelt, whose mother’s childhood home was Bulloch Hall in Roswell. Roosevelt returned home by way of the Roswell Railroad in 1905. You can read more about Roosevelt’s visit here.

With Thanksgiving just a couple of days away, I enjoy thinking back to the holiday during my childhood years. Since I grew up in Atlanta, we had a southern traditional meal with turkey, sweet potatoes, dressing, other side dishes and of course pie. My mom sometimes baked a cream cheese pound cake, two kinds of pie, and some chocolate chip cookies when she became a grandmother.

Lisa Lane in Dunwoody was named for two sisters in the Kirby family-Lisa and Lane. I received confirmation of this story from Lane, except her name is spelled Laine.   Laine Kirby Wood and her family grew up in a nineteenth century farmhouse on what is now Lisa Lane. 

The McDonald’s restaurant at 5220 Buford Highway was one of the earliest McDonald’s in Georgia. The June 23, 1961 Atlanta Constitution had a short announcement, “McDonald’s hamburger chain has announced the start of construction on its third Atlanta area restaurant unit, a $125,000 facility on the Buford Highway in Doraville, in its 265 restaurant chain covering 34 states.”