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Frank Clementi, president of the Historic Brookhaven Neighborhood
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Historic Brookhaven embraces
their traditions and their past
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tinez said. “It was beautiful, all the houses
were different. The streets were wide, ev
erybody still waved at each other.”
And Martinez said the neighborhood
has proven to be a great place to raise her
9-year-old twins.
“There’s a rebirth of young kids and
family and community,” Martinez said.
“Everybody knows each other and peo
ple walk around and visit.”
There are about 900 homes on 46
streets in the Historic Brookhaven
neighborhood. The community is split
with 2/3 in the city of Atlanta in Ful
ton County and 1/3 in the new city of
Brookhaven in DeKalb County.
At the center of the neighborhood is
the golf course of the prestigious Capital
City Country Club.
According to the Historic Brookhav
en Neighborhood Association, the com
munity was the first in the state to be
designed around a golf course. When
it opened in 1912, the Brookhav
en Country Club was Atlanta’s second
golf course. The Capital City Club pur
chased the Brookhaven Country Club
golf course in 1915 and expanded it
from nine to 18 holes.
The Brookhaven Estates Company
sold land around the club and, by 1928,
there were 19 houses surrounding the
club, the association says. Development
continued over the years, and several
prominent architects designed homes in
the area. The neighborhood has been on
the U.S. National Register of Historic
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