This week a new exhibit opens at DeKalb History Center, located on the first floor of the Historic DeKalb Courthouse. The exhibit is called “Home: The United Methodist Children’s Home” and tells the history through photographs, text and audio. The exhibit will be open Monday through Fridays from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm, Saturdays 10:00 am to 2:00 pm. Admission is free, but donations are appreciated.
Decatur-based photographer Beate Sass took the photographs and conducted interviews for the exhibit, combining the two into a manuscript. Moira Bucciarelli assisted with interviews. Past residents, employees and volunteers of the UMCH were interviewed and recorded.
Read moreAccording to documents in the DeKalb History Center archives, Pearidge refers to an area of Tucker between Lawrenceville Highway and North Druid Hills Road, Burnt Creek and north to the railroad. Several farms were in the area, including the 250-acre R. F. Sams Truck Farm and the Honea dairy farm on Montreal Road.
Read moreAccording to ancestry.com. Greenville Henderson was born in South Carolina in 1792.. He married Nancy Ann Barnett in 1813 in Morgan County, Georgia. He was also known as Major Greenville Henderson, having fought in the War of 1812. His father fought in the Revolutionary War.
The land of Greenville Henderson extended from the area of Henderson Mill Road and Henderson Road to where Northlake Mall and other commercial businesses are located. He is said to have accumulated 2000 acres.
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