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Murphey Candler Lake is a man-made
lake at the center of Brookhaven’s
largest park, Murphey Candler Park.

CITY OF BROOKHAVEN

I NCORPORATED 2012
Mayor John Ernst., Jr.

Brookhaven has the distinction of being the first community in Georgia designed around a golf course
and with many of the original pine trees retained. The Brookhaven Historic District is on the
U.S. National Register of Historic Places. This is DeKalb’s largest city, stretching across 12 square miles.

rookhaven’s first permanent European settler the Mechanical and Manufacturers Club purchased the land
was John Evins, who began building a plantation making up the Country Club property and lots surrounding
around 1810. Prior to the Civil War, ownership it for a development called Brookhaven Estates.
B passed to Solomon Goodwin, then to Salson The Brookhaven Country Club opened in 1912 with a
Stovall in the late 1800s. Much of what is now the Historic nine-hole course designed by Herbert H. Barker, a golf pro
District developed on land owned at one time by Goodwin from Garden City, NY. The Capital City Club purchased the
and/or Stovall. The Goodwin home and family graveyard Brookhaven Country Club in 1915 and expanded the golf
are preserved at the 3900 block of Peachtree Road, near course to 18 holes.
Dresden Drive. If you lived in Historic Brookhaven mid-century,

Prominent Atlantans began building summer cottages movies were a close walk from home. The Brookhaven
in Brookhaven around 1900 when it was still considered far Theater operated from 1938 to 1962 at 4012 Peachtree
enough away from Atlanta. A decade later, investors with Road. One of the benefits to attract moviegoers was

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