Buckhead

Buckhead, a community four miles from downtown Atlanta, began approximately 6,000 years ago when the Paleo—Indians lived along the Chattahoochee River. By the mid—1700s, the Muscogee (Creek) Indians lived there in the village of Standing Peach Tree. They ceded a major portion of their land to Georgia in 1821, and from that cession came Atlanta and Buckhead. Settlers arrived and operated river ferries, mills, and farms. When Henry Irby opened a tavern in 1838 and hung a buck's head—either ov...