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University Park–Emory Highlands–Emory Estates is a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places in the Druid Hills CDP adjacent to Emory University near Atlanta, Georgia. The University Park tract broke ground in 1916 and consists of 65 houses along Emory and Ridgewood Drives.
Emory Village, a small historic commercial node. Emory University, including its hospitals, is the third largest employer in Metro Atlanta as of 2007/8. [30] The CDC is also an employer of note. Commercial areas include Emory Village, a small node first developed in the 1920s at the terminus of the streetcar line to Emory.
The district was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and later by his sons, the Olmsted Brothers.Druid Hills was Atlanta's second major suburb, after Inman Park, and as one of Olmsted's major works, had a significant influence on future suburban development.
Emory University is a private research university in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. It was founded in 1836 as Emory College by the Methodist Episcopal Church and named in honor of Methodist bishop John Emory. [18] Its main campus is in Druid Hills, three miles (five kilometers) from downtown Atlanta. [19]
Emory Point is a mixed-use development on Clifton Road in Druid Hills, unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, adjacent to Atlanta. It is across Clifton Road from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and surrounded on three sides by the campus of Emory University .
A Black Methodist camp was founded in 1864 as Emory Grove, that predated Washington Grove. [28] Less than a mile separated the two towns, and many of the residents of Emory Grove worked for the residents of Washington Grove. [28] The superintendent of the Washington Grove grounds was a resident of Emory Grove named William A. Scott. [28]
Emory Grove is a small area of bungalow style homes built in 1939 and the 1940s in Druid Hills, Georgia near Emory University.The Emory Grove Historic District, located between Emory University and the city of Decatur, Georgia, is a 90-acre (36 ha) historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000.
Note: many unincorporated communities in DeKalb County and Cobb County, Georgia adjacent to Atlanta, including Druid Hills CDP and North Druid Hills, both in DeKalb County and Cumberland, Georgia and Vinings, Georgia, both in Cobb County use "Atlanta" in their postal address but are not part of the City of Atlanta.