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Brookhaven is a city in the northeastern suburbs of Atlanta. It is in western DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, directly northeast of Atlanta. On July 31, 2012, Brookhaven was approved in a referendum to become DeKalb County's 11th city. Incorporation officially took place on December 17, 2012,〔("CITY OF BROOKHAVEN: Request for Proposal (RFP) For Risk Management & Insurance Services For the City of Brookhaven, Georgia; Governor’s Commission on Brookhaven (“Commission”), December 3, 2012 )〕 on which date municipal operations commenced. With a population of around 49,000, it is the largest city in DeKalb County.〔("Brookhaven residents vote to create new city", Reporter Newspapers, July 31, 2012 )〕 The new city stretches over 12 square miles.〔"(Georgia scraps over creation of new, mostly white cities )" - USA Today 2012/07/30〕 ==History== Brookhaven's first permanent European settler was John Evins, who started a plantation around 1810. Harris and Solomon Goodwin, who moved to Georgia from South Carolina, became owners of the land in the 1830s. The Goodwin home and the family graveyard have been preserved at the 3900 block of Peachtree Road, near Dresden Drive. A train station known as Goodwin's was constructed along the Atlanta and Richmond (later Atlanta and Charlotte) railway in 1873.〔("The Air-Line', ''Weekly Constitution'', Aug. 26, 1873 )〕 The settlement of Cross Keys, with a population of 250 in 1876, was located one mile (2 km) north along the rail line from Goodwin's.〔("Atlanta's Allies: The Great Feeders for Our Metropolitan City", ''Atlanta Weekly Constitution'', September 26, 1876 )〕 In 1879 Cross Keys was described:〔(''Shole's Georgia State Gazetteer and Business Directory, 1879-1880'', p.476 )〕 Nancy's Creek furnished power for operating a mill. The place has two churches—Methodist and Baptist—one common school, and steam cotton gins. Cotton and wood form the chief exports. About 140 bales of cotton shipped per annum, most of which is carried to Atlanta by wagon. Population within a radius of 2 miles (km ), near 400. Mail daily… Depot and station () one and one-quarter miles (km ) distant () this place. Atlanta residents began constructing summer cottages in the community around 1900. In 1910, on the north side of Peachtree Road were purchased for development as a planned community surrounding a golf course. The nine-hole golf course, designed by Herbert Barker,〔(【引用サイトリンク】url=http://www.worldgolf.com/golf-architects/herbert-barker.html )〕 a golf pro from Garden City, Long Island, opened in 1912. Residences developed in three phases, with Brookhaven Estates designed in 1910, followed by Country Club Estates in 1929 and the Carleton Operating Company in 1936. Independently, Edwin P. Ansley sold lots in the area, calling it Oglethorpe Park.〔1914 ad in ''Atlanta Constitution'', offering Oglethorpe Park lots for sale〕 Construction of the historic neighborhood was largely complete by the end of World War II. The country club became part of the downtown Capital City Club in 1911, and its name was changed to the Capital City Country Club. The golf course was expanded from nine to eighteen holes in 1915. The clubhouse, designed by Preston Stevens in the French Provencial style, was completed in 1928. The area was incorporated as the city of North Atlanta in 1924. In 1963, the North Atlanta's leaders asked the state Legislature to allow a referendum on a new city charter. The Legislature agreed, but also included an additional option in the referendum: disincorporation. The majority of voters chose disincorporation, and the city's charter was dissolved in 1965. From the 1950s to the 1970s, major commercial and residential development took place in Brookhaven, resulting in the area being largely built-out by 1980. The Brookhaven MARTA Station opened in 1984. In 1986, the Capital City Club and its surrounding estate homes were placed on the National Register of Historic Places, and the neighborhood is now officially known as "Historic Brookhaven."〔"()" ''National Register of Historic Places: DeKalb County'' Retrieved: 18 August 2008.〕 The idea of incorporating Brookhaven as a city was first brought up in 2007, with the purpose of securing local community control over planning, zoning, land use, police, fire protection, and parks and recreation---rather than having those issues decided from Decatur. However, the idea failed to gain momentum. The proposed city would have included 53,000 people.〔 In 2011, the incorporation of Brookhaven was revived when state Rep. Mike Jacobs announced plans to introduce legislation allowing the creation of a city of Brookhaven, over the objections of many residents of the neighborhood of Historic Brookhaven, which would not lie in the proposed city boundaries. On July 31, 2012, 55% of voters chose to incorporate the city of Brookhaven. 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「Brookhaven, Georgia」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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