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Although not a park, Wilton Drive lies in a unique ecological area that drains into Peavine Creek. It is monitored by the Peavine Watershed Alliance, and is on the City of Decatur's Walking Tour #4. Woodlands, 930 Scott Blvd. A 7.1-acre (29,000 m 2) nature sanctuary was donated to the Decatur Preservation Alliance (DPA) in 2002 by the Morse family.
Glenlake Park & Pool, 1121 Church Street. A 17-acre (69,000 m 2) park with a picnic area, pool, tennis courts, sports courts, playground and dog park. Traditionally, “Glenn Lake” received its name by combining the names of the neighborhoods that are located on each side of it - Glennwood Estates and the Great Lakes neighborhood. Although ...
Decatur (/ d ə ˈ k eɪ t ər /) is a city and the county seat of DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, part of the Atlanta metropolitan area.With a population of 24,928 in the 2020 census, [4] the municipality is sometimes assumed to be larger since multiple ZIP Codes in unincorporated DeKalb County bear Decatur as the address.
East Lake Park, bordered by Memorial Drive, Alston Drive, and both Daniel and Green Avenues, is a multi functional and sport park. The facilities include a rentable event space, basketball courts, a youth playground, tennis courts, a pavilion with grills and picnic tables, an enormous open green space, and The Birds Nest - a baseball field ...
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LaVista Park, 1319 Brookforest Dr., 4-acre (16,000 m 2) DeKalb County park with playground and picnic area. W.D. Thomson Park , [often misspelled "Thompson"] 1760 Mason Mill Rd. ( off Mason Woods Drive) , 29-acre (120,000 m 2 ) DeKalb County park with courts, playground, creek, picnic area and trails.
The Atlanta Consolidated Street Railway built the North Decatur trolley line in 1892. [2] This line crossed the South Decatur trolley line at the center of the Oakhurst business district - the intersection of East Lake Drive, Oakview Road and Mead Road. This portion of Oakhurst was owned by Eugenius N. Meade in the late 19th century.
The land to the south of Glenwood Avenue was owned by former Georgia Governor Joseph Emerson Brown. With Brown's support, a grid of streets was planned around a 13-acre (53,000 m 2) public green space, a model for the "urban utopian living" that was being touted at the time. After 1915, in a series of votes, East Atlanta residents chose to be ...