U.S. Rep. John Lewis, D-Atlanta, has filed a bill to make the Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site a national historic site and add an additional building to the federally protected area.
Buckhead is known the world over for its shopping, dining and entertainment options. But, the community’s continued growth will dramatically change the community profile over the 36 months.
By all accounts, Buckhead was a fairly sleepy community in the years after World War II. Perched just north of the city of Atlanta, the Buckhead community had about 50,000 residents by the latter half of the 1940s.