Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Buckhead, Atlanta Author

ATLANTA - Nov. 7, 2013 - PRLog -- Buckhead, a community four miles from downtown Atlanta, began approximately 6,000 years ago when the Paleo-Indians lived along the Chattahoochee River.  By the mid-1700s, the Muscogee (Creek) Indians lived there in the village of Standing Peach Tree. They ceded a major portion of their land to Georgia in 1821 and from that cession came Atlanta and Buckhead.

After the Civil War, black neighborhoods, schools and potteries were established. Around the turn of the century, some Atlanta residents bought land in Buckhead, built cottages and operated small farms. The streetcar was extended to Buckhead in 1907, and friends followed friends to the community.

Join the Author for a Book Signing!

Where:  Costco

500 Brookhaven Ave, Atlanta GA 30319

When: Thursday, November 21^st, 2013; 11:00 a.m. –2:00 p.m.

Available at area bookstores, independent retailers, and online retailers, or through Arcadia Publishing at www.arcadiapublishing.com or

(888)-313-2665.

Arcadia Publishing is the leading publisher of local and regional history in the United States.  Our mission is to make history accessible and meaningful through the publication of books on the heritage of America’s people and places.  Have we done a book on your town?  Visit www.arcadiapublishing.com.

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Susan Kessler Barnard’s photographs came from private collections and from the archives at the Atlanta History Center, Georgia Archives, and the Bremen Museum. She is also the author of Buckhead: A Place for All Time.

Buckhead

by Susan Kessler Barnard

Images of America Series

128 pages/ softcover

Available: May 25, 2009