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MELISSA WEINMAN
Melissa Chevalier sits on the steps of her Pine Hills home.
Pine Hills residents love their
quiet neighborhood in the city
BY MELISSA WEINMAN
melissaweinman@reporternewspapers.net
When Albert Martin bought his Pine
Hills home in the late 1960s, he didn’t
realize that he already had a connection
to the neighborhood.
While combing through old maps
and records and deeds, Martin learned
that the land where Pine Hills was built
was owned by his great-great-uncle. He
also found that some of his relatives are
buried in a small family cemetery in the
woods nearby.
“We knew the cemetery was there
but didn’t realize it was kinfolk there,”
Martin said. “My family has a long asso
ciation with the whole neighborhood. It
just sort of solidified the area we lived in
and made it more interesting for me to
get into the history of Pine Hills.”
Martin is the historian of the Pine
Hills neighborhood and has spent many
years researching the history of his fam
ily, the Goodwins, who have lived
since the 1800s in the area that now is
Brookhaven.
The Pine Hills subdivision sits on
the line separating Fulton and DeKalb
counties, with some of the homes in the
Buckhead community of the city of At
lanta and some in Brookhaven.
“That’s one of the things that makes
Pine Hills unique,” Martin said. “Our
community has to be active in four juris
dictions, with the creation of Brookhav-
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en.
His wife, Virve Martin, said that ac
tivism has kept their neighborhood the
quiet, shaded community that it is.
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Neighbors have worked hard to fend off
developers who have eyed their prop
erty, with its easy highway access and
proximity to Lenox Mall.
“There have been so many zoning
meetings our community has attended
over the past 30 years. That’s why we’re
still residential,” Virve Martin said.
The vibrancy of the neighborhood
can be seen in the mix of old and new
homes, said Melissa Chevalier, who
moved to Pine Hills after she got mar
ried seven years ago.
“It’s a transitional community,” Che
valier said. “There’s some ranch [houses]
and McMansions. There’s a little bit of
everything.”
But it’s the mix of people in different
stages of their lives that makes Pine Hills
such a nice community, she said.
Chevalier is president of the neigh
borhood’s garden club, which has held
monthly meetings for the past 50 years.
“It represents the people of Pine Hills
— that means young and old. The old
er women are the most fascinating peo
ple,” she said.
The club meets once a month from
September to May in members’ homes.
It hosts speakers on a variety of topics,
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