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She wanted one of her own.
So in 1995, she and her family moved
into a home on Hunters Branch Drive.
One recent weekend afternoon, she sat
on her back porch in the early spring
sun and looked out over the big back
yard her family had filled with towering
evergreens and with camellias that now
flowered red or white. Out front, Lent
en roses bloomed.
She ticked off reasons she felt at
home. “The location is perfect,” she said.
Her husband’s office was only a mile
away. Their church was nearby. Their
children, now off at college, had gone to
good neighborhood schools.
“You find your place,” she said. “You
luck out and find everything. You’re
lucky.”
The Branches isn’t a small place.
Blad and other residents say the neigh
borhood, which straddles the line be
tween Dunwoody and Sandy Springs
and DeKalb and Fulton counties, takes
in something like 900 homes as it rolls
from Mount Vernon Road to Spalding
Drive and from nearly Chamblee Dun-
woody to nearly Peachtree Dunwoody
roads. About 700 homes are in the Dun
woody portion of the neighborhood,
with the remaining 200 on the Sandy
Springs side, Blad said.
Being in two different cities doesn’t
seem to create political problems for the
community. Residents are politically
plugged in — Blad, for instance, is ac
tive with the Sandy Springs Council of
Neighborhoods — and several said they
rarely think about the division, except
when school buses from two different
districts drive through to drop off their
charges.
Most of the homes in the neigh
borhood were built during the 1960s
through the 1980s, residents say. The
developers made The Branches into
the sort of suburban neighborhood
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Tochie Blad
checks out
her yard in
The Branches
subdivision.
It was the
big yard that
attracted
her to the
neighborhood.
In The Branches, residents say
they’ve found their place
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Tochie Blad knows what attracted
her to The Branches.
A big yard.
“We already had friends — another
young family — who were living here,”
she said. “They invited us to a party and
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