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A corn and wheat mill on the north fork of Peachtree Creek was operated between 1885 and about 1910. The area was a quiet farming community until the early 20th century when Atlantans began moving out of the city to country estates, such as Roxborough Springs, the Standard Club (with golf course) and a riding academy in the Canter Road area.
Atlanta Athletic Club (AAC), founded in 1898, is a private country club in Johns Creek, Georgia, a suburb 23 miles north of Atlanta.The original home of the club was a 10-story building located on Carnegie Way, and in 1904 a golf course was built on Atlanta's East Lake property.
In 2006, at the location of the old indoor tennis building near the East Gate, work began on a 245,000-square-foot, multi-purpose tennis pavilion. [1] The new facility was completed in 2008 [2] and includes 12 courts, classrooms, fitness facilities, and a pro shop. [1] It also includes a hospitality center, museum, and food commissary. [1]
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The club later briefly used the adjacent grounds as a golf course until it sold the land to the city in 1904 to create Piedmont Park. The club admitted its first black member in 1994. [1] The club's facilities include golf, tennis, padel, squash, swimming, exercise facilities, massage, casual and fine dining, and event space for larger gatherings.
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Residents are within Atlanta Public Schools and have the following zoned schools: Garden Hills Elementary School, [4] Sutton Middle School [5] Sutton Middle School, [6] and North Atlanta High School. [7] The former North Fulton High School is a contributing property of the historic district. [8] It is now used as Atlanta International School.
Northwest Athletic was a chain of health clubs or fitness centers in the Minneapolis-Saint Paul Metropolitan Area. The clubs began mostly as indoor tennis courts. The centers expanded into other areas of health and fitness. The chain peaked the 1980s, when it was among the largest fitness center chains in the United States.