The Storyteller at park in Buckhead
Local lore has recorded that in 1838 a hunter hung a deer´s head at about this location in front of Irby´s Tavern. The Henry Irby family owned 803 surrounding acres and the area was designated Irbyville on maps at that time. People started identifying the area by the buck´s head and the community then changed its name to Buckhead.
Is was annexed into the City of Atlanta in 1952. It now has official boundaries of twenty-eight square miles as designated by the Atlanta Regional Commission.
"The Storyteller" is sharing this information with its circle of small animal friends.
This City Park, Buckhead Triangle, is a product primarily of the Robert W. Woodruff Foundation.
Plaque courtesy Lat34North.com.
Original page, with additional info, here.
Photo credit: Byron Hooks of Lat34North.com.