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Kerry de Vallette, with his dog ’’Baer.” De Vallette and his family
returned to the area 20 years ago, when his job brought him
back from Florida. They chose Dunwoody Club Forest since it
was an established neighborhood with homes on large lots.
said. “[We have] wonderful neighbors.
Now there are lots of little kids around.
I just adore it.”
In fact, “quiet” seems to be a word
Dunwoody Club Forest residents most
often employ to describe their 495-home
subdivision built on the rolling hills be
tween Mount Vernon Road and Dun
woody Club Drive.
Streets are lined
with large, two-
story brick homes
and well-kept gar
dens. It’s the kind
of neighborhood
where many of the
mailboxes that line the streets are en
cased in decorative brick structures.
Like many of their neighbors, the
Stewarts joined the nearby country club
that gave their subdivision its name.
The Dunwoody Country Club start
ed building a golf course in the area in
the mid-1960s, and relocated officially
in 1969. Subdivisions followed. Unlike
the builders of other subdivisions in the
area, Dunwoody Club Forest’s develop
ers didn’t bother to build a swim or ten
nis club because the community was so
close to the country club.
These days, the Dunwoody Country
Club and Dunwoody Club Forest call
different cities home. The club, north
of Dunwoody Club Drive, lies in Sandy
Springs. The subdivision, to the south of
the road, sits in Dunwoody.
Dunwoody Club Forest differs from
some of its neighboring large subdivi
sions in subtle ways. Dunwoody Club
Forest Neighbors Inc., a group that pro
vides social activities such as a Hallow
een party, and publishes a directory and
website for the neighborhood, started
not as an outgrowth of a swim-and-ten-
nis club, as many other such groups did,
but as a community garden club, said
Tim Minton, the group’s vice president
of communications. The club claims its
own official flower, the daisy, and tree,
the magnolia.
The Mintons settled in the neigh
borhood about nine years ago. Minton’s
wife lived in Dunwoody as a child, he
said, and they wanted to raise their chil
dren near the place where she grew up.
Now their home backs up to a patch of
forest, and Minton watches from his
open kitchen as deer appear to nibble
plants in his yard and garden. “There
was a big old deer here just a minute
ago,” he said one re
cent afternoon. “It’s
nice to look at, but
he eats all my toma-
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toes.
At his home
in another part
of the neighbor
hood, Kerry de Vallette sees deer, too.
And he’s watched fox and coyotes wan
der through his yard. His dog, Baer,
checks the deck carefully for strange vis
itors before going out into the back gar
den, he said. “When he comes out in the
morning, he stops and sniffs because he
knows other things have been around,”
de Vallette said. “We have some wildlife
around here.”
The de Vallettes settled in the neighbor
hood 20 years ago, when his job brought
him back to Atlanta from Florida. His
family lived in Dunwoody before, and
knew they wanted to move back to the
area, but “the real estate market in Dun
woody was crazy. Houses were on the mar
ket like three days,” he said.
They chose a house in Dunwoody
Club Forest because at the time it was an
established neighborhood with houses
on large lots. They, too, joined the near
by country club and settled in. Through
the years, they’ve found that through the
homeowners group, their quiet neigh
borhood offers plenty of things to do.
“As subdivisions go, it’s pretty active,”
he said.
The Stewarts agree. They say resi
dents of their cul-de-sac throw birthday
parties for their neighbors, and now, as
residents age and move on and younger
families replace them, there are plenty of
kids around.
“I can’t imagine living anywhere else,”
Lucy Stewart said.
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