Copenhill

Copenhill 1917

Copenhill was a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia which was located where the Carter Center now sits, and which now forms part of the Poncey-Highland neighborhood. It lay northwest of Highland Avenue and the Inman Park neighborhood, east of the Southern Railroad (now the BeltLine), and south of Williams Mill Road, now approximately where the portion of Freedom Parkway is that is the eastward extension of Ralph McGill Blvd.

Copenhill was one of the first streetcar suburbs of Atlanta. Lots were sold starting in 1890.^[1] The area was attractive, amongst other reasons, due to its accessibility to the Nine-Mile Circle streetcar line along Ponce de Leon Avenue, though streetcar service was later added on Highland Avenue. In 1908 the area was annexed to the city of Atlanta. In 1929 most of Copenhill was rezoned as an industrial area.^[2] In the 1960s the area was razed to make way for the interchange of the I-485 freeway with the Stone Mountain and Georgia 400 freeways, which however were never built in this area. After laying vacant for many years, the Carter Center was finally dedicated in 1986. However, it was only in 2000 that the land originally razed to make way for a freeway was turned instead into a parkway (Freedom Parkway) and park land (Freedom Park).

A memory of the area's former existence as a neighborhood is retained in the name of the café at the Carter Center: the Copenhill Café and Patio.

Streets of Copenhill

Most of Coppenhill's streets listed below still exist in parts, truncated to make way for the freeways that were never built:

• Albion Avenue
• Aral Avenue (no portion still exists - small street not on map linking Beulah and Bernina)
• Argard Avenue (portion still exists as Albion Ave.)
• Augusta Avenue
• Beulah Avenue (no portion still exists)
• Carmel Avenue
• Cleburn Avenue
• Copenhill Avenue
• Dundee Avenue
• Madeira Avenue
• Washita Avenue

References

1. ^ "Copenhill Park". Atlanta Constitution. April 23, 1890. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ajc_historic/access/529148002.html?dids=529148002:529148002&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Apr+23,+1890&author=&pub=The+Atlanta+Constitution&desc=COPENHILL+PARK.&pqatl=google. Retrieved January 11, 2011. 
2. ^ "Motion picture will be made at Thomasville". Atlanta Constituion. June 9, 1929. http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ajc_historic/access/908233912.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jun+09%2C+1929&author=&pub=The+Atlanta+Constitution+(1881-2001)&desc=MOTION+PICTURE+WILL+BE+MADE+AT+THOMASVILLE&pqatl=google. Retrieved January 2, 2011. 

External links

• Picture of Augusta Avenue in Copenhill, 1895