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Copenhill, Copenhill Park, or Copen Hill was a neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia which was located largely where the Carter Center now sits, and which now forms part of the Poncey-Highland neighborhood. ==History== Copen Hill (as it was originally written) was the site of the Augustus Hurt house (often erroneously cited as "Howard House"),〔(Augustus Hurt house historical marker )〕 which served as General Sherman's temporary headquarters during the Battle of Atlanta.〔("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 was one of the three owners.〔(''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 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. The Copenhill developers cooperated with the Inman Park developers to insure both developments were finished to the greatest advantage of one another.〔(Atlanta City Council ordinance (1982) amending zoning for Inman Park Historic District )〕 In April 1890, Col. George W. Adair auctioned off the first lots of the new subdivision of "Copenhill Park", which thus became one of the first streetcar suburbs of Atlanta. The area was attractive, among other reasons, for its accessibility to the 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 * East of the Southern Railroad (now the 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. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Copenhill」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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