# Copenhill > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Copenhill > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Copenhill.md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhill > Source revision: 1293692563 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) {{Short description|Neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia}} {{About|the former neighborhood in Atlanta|the artificial hill in Copenhagen|Amager Bakke}} {{Use mdy dates|date=February 2025}} {{Use American English|date=January 2025}} {{coord|33.764831|-84.356125|display=title}} thumb|Plan for Copenhill Park, 1887 thumb|Article about first sale of lots, 1890 thumb|Copenhill 1917 '''Copenhill''', '''Copenhill Park''', or '''Copen Hill''', was a [neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia](/source/Neighborhoods_of_Atlanta), United States. It was located largely where the [Carter Center](/source/Carter_Center) now sits, and now forms part of the [Poncey-Highland](/source/Poncey-Highland) neighborhood. ==History== Copen Hill (as it was originally written) was the site of the [Augustus Hurt house](/source/Augustus_Hurt_house) (often erroneously cited as "Howard House"),[http://www.hmdb.org/Marker.asp?Marker=10276 Augustus Hurt house historical marker] which served as [General Sherman](/source/William_Tecumseh_Sherman)'s temporary headquarters during the [Battle of Atlanta](/source/Battle_of_Atlanta).[https://web.archive.org/web/20070707161713/http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/atlanta/text.htm "Atlanta", National Park Service] In 1888, the Copenhill Land Company was incorporated with Oscar Davis as president and Charles A. Davis as secretary and treasurer; [Lodewick Johnson Hill](/source/Lodewick_Johnson_Hill) was one of the three owners.[https://books.google.com/books?id=D5cMAQAAMAAJ&q=copenhill ''American biography: a new cyclopedia'', Volume 52, William Richard Hunter] The company laid out the city's second "garden suburb" (after Inman Park). The centerpiece was Madeira Park, which, like Springvale Park in Inman Park, was created out of a natural ravine near the center of the development. Intersections of the curving streets were often defined by small circular or triangular parks similar to those found in [Ansley Park](/source/Ansley_Park) today. Other open spaces were also included in the original design, most notably the small lake near the intersection of Layal (now Colquitt) Avenue and Highland Avenue, which was fed by a small branch that formed part of the headquarters of [Clear Creek](/source/Clear_Creek_(Atlanta)). The Copenhill developers cooperated with the Inman Park developers to insure both developments were finished to the greatest advantage of one another.[http://citycouncil.atlantaga.gov/2002/images/adopted/0410/02O0050.pdf Atlanta City Council ordinance (1982) amending zoning for Inman Park Historic District] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120317013620/http://citycouncil.atlantaga.gov/2002/images/adopted/0410/02O0050.pdf |date=2012-03-17 }} In April 1890, Col. [George W. Adair](/source/George_W._Adair) auctioned off the first lots of the new subdivision of "Copenhill Park", which thus became one of the first [streetcar suburbs](/source/streetcar_suburbs) of Atlanta.{{cite news |title= Copenhill Park|url= https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ajc_historic/access/529148002.html?dids=529148002:529148002&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Apr+23,+1890&author=&pub=The+Atlanta+Constitution&desc=COPENHILL+PARK.&pqatl=google|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20121104225235/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ajc_historic/access/529148002.html?dids=529148002:529148002&FMT=ABS&FMTS=ABS:AI&date=Apr+23,+1890&author=&pub=The+Atlanta+Constitution&desc=COPENHILL+PARK.&pqatl=google|url-status= dead|archive-date= November 4, 2012|newspaper= Atlanta Constitution|date= April 23, 1890|accessdate=January 11, 2011}} The area was attractive, among other reasons, for its accessibility to the [Nine-Mile Circle](/source/Nine-Mile_Circle) streetcar line along Ponce de Leon Avenue, though streetcar service was later added on Highland Avenue. It lay: * Northwest of what is now Sinclair Avenue, and included Highland Avenue from Elizabeth to North Avenue. It thus includes houses along Atlantis, Sinclair and one side of a block of Austin that are now considered part of [Inman Park](/source/Inman_Park) * East of the Southern Railroad (now the [BeltLine](/source/BeltLine)) * South of Williams Mill Road, a small portion of which still exists, the rest of which ran roughly along the northern edge of the Carter Center In 1908 the area was annexed into the city of Atlanta. ===Post-residential period=== In June 1929, the area between Barnett Street, Maderia Avenue, and Albion Avenue (near the modern-day Carter Center) was petitioned to be rezoned by the Pattillo Lumber Company.{{cite news |title= Motion picture will be made at Thomasville|url=https://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ajc_historic/access/908233912.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jun+09%2C+1929&author=&pub=The+Atlanta+Constitution+(1881-2001)&desc=MOTION+PICTURE+WILL+BE+MADE+AT+THOMASVILLE&pqatl=google |archive-url=https://archive.today/20130201014157/http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/ajc_historic/access/908233912.html?FMT=CITE&FMTS=CITE:AI&type=historic&date=Jun+09,+1929&author=&pub=The+Atlanta+Constitution+(1881-2001)&desc=MOTION+PICTURE+WILL+BE+MADE+AT+THOMASVILLE&pqatl=google |url-status=dead |archive-date=February 1, 2013 |newspaper= Atlanta Constitution|date= June 9, 1929|accessdate=January 2, 2011}} In the 1960s the area was razed to make way for the interchange of the [I-485](/source/Interstate_485_(Georgia)) freeway with the [Stone Mountain](/source/Stone_Mountain_Freeway) and [Georgia 400](/source/Georgia_State_Route_400) freeways, which, however, [were never built in this area](/source/Atlanta_freeway_revolts). After laying vacant for many years, the Carter Center was finally dedicated in 1986. However, it was only in 1992 that the land originally razed to make way for a freeway was turned instead into a parkway ([Freedom Parkway](/source/Freedom_Parkway)) and park land ([Freedom Park](/source/Freedom_Parkway)). A memory of the area's former existence as a neighborhood is retained in the name of the café at the Carter Center: the Copenhill Café and Patio.[https://web.archive.org/web/20101120184518/http://cartercenter.org/about/facilities/copenhill-cafe-patio.html Copenhill Café and Patio]. == See also == * {{portal inline|Georgia (U.S. state)}} ==References== {{Reflist}} ==External links== * [https://web.archive.org/web/20110707183158/http://album.atlantahistorycenter.com/store/Products/79539-augusta-avenue-copenhill.aspx Picture of Augusta Avenue in Copenhill, 1895] {{Former Atlanta neighborhoods}} Category:Former neighborhoods of Atlanta Category:Streetcar suburbs --- Adapted from the Wikipedia article [Copenhill](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhill) by Wikipedia contributors ([contributor history](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copenhill?action=history)). Available under [Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). 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