Dachau liberated 80 years ago, April 29, 1945
To commemorate 80 years since the liberation of Dachua, I wanted to return to the history shared with me by Hilbert Margol in 2021. World War II veteran Hilbert Margol and his brother Howard Margol were there to liberate Dachau on April 29, 1945 as part of the 42nd Infantry.
Peachtree Industrial Blvd. 1958, Peachtree Blvd. 2008
The October 26, 1958 Atlanta Journal newspaper printed an article titled, “Peachtree leads new south to shiny industrial future.” The article announced a new four-lane highway called Peachtree Industrial Boulevard. “North of Atlanta, slashed across the flat red plain of the Piedmont, a vibrant symbol of the new south flourishes.”
Sandy Springs DeWald’s Alley and the memories of Shirley Peters Pruitt
Residents of DeWald’s Alley rented from Clyde and Susie DeWald, who lived nearby on Spruill Road, later known as Meadow Lane Road. Susie DeWald would go door to door collecting rent each month. The houses of DeWald’s Alley had outhouses, no electricity, and well water. Pumps were eventually installed.
Atlanta flocks to Flowerland
In 1932, he sold the dairy farm and bought 138 acres in Chamblee. He and wife Lucy Hurt Fischer built a home with elaborate gardens, calling it Flowerland. The home was designed by Phillip Trammel Shutze.
George Adolphus, Sandy Springs postmaster
Finally in 1930, Adolphus began his career as a Methodist minister while living on Crew Street. But in 1934, he made the move to the country, bought a five-acre farm in Burdal and became postmaster.
1938, Fulton County school teachers who marry can keep their job
According to an article in the Sunday American Newspaper (the Sunday edition of the Atlanta Georgian), Oct. 3, 1937, titled “Married teacher opinion divided,” in the Fulton County School System, women teachers who married would lose their jobs.
Before Murphey Candler Park
In the early 1950s, the Kiwanis Club of North DeKalb spearheaded a project to provide North DeKalb County with a park. The 165-acre property was donated by M. A. and Cora Quinn Long and Fred B. Wilson for the construction of a park in 1953.
Moonshine stories
When Ralph Glaze was a boy growing up along Winters Chapel and Peeler Road, he remembers the rumor of moonshine production between Happy Hollow and Winters Chapel Road along what is now Dunwoody Club Drive. Adults used to say, “don’t go down there,” sometimes using the story of a monster to keep children away.
