Dixie Hills is a historic neighborhood of northwest
Atlanta
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with a population of 1,756 (2010).
It is bordered:
*on the north by Joseph E. Boone Blvd., across which are
Center Hill and
Grove Park
*on the east by Whitaker Circle and Anderson Ave., across which are
West Lake
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*on the south by
I-20 across which is Florida Heights; and Penelope Neighbors
*on the west by the Harvel Homes Community and Westhaven
It has an active community with monthly neighborhood meetings and committee volunteers (a.k.a. Dixie Hills Community Civic Club). The official community website for the Dixie Hills neighborhood i
www.DixieHillsAtlanta.com
History
A historic West Atlanta Neighborhood since 1938. Real estate developer Heman E. Perry developed Hunter Hills and Dixie Hills with contractor Herman Glass.
In 1960, Donald "Doc" Miller opened Miller's Dixie Hills Pharmacy. In 1965 he moved his business to what is now called
South Downtown
South Downtown is a historic neighborhood of Downtown Atlanta, Georgia, United States. South Downtown is primarily home to city, county, state, and federal governmental offices, which prompted the city to adopt signage declaring the area "Governm ...
and changed the name to
Miller's Rexall Drugs,
''Spiritual Merchants: Religion, Magic, and Commerce'', Carolyn Morrow Long, p.153
/ref> today a quirky landmark known for its selection of hoodoo supplies.
During the long hot summer of 1967, when more than 100 race riots broke out around the country, Dixie Hills joined the rebellion for three nights after Kwame Turé (then Stokely Carmichael) addressed a protest over a youngster’s shooting by a black policeman.
In 1967, Atlanta historian Franklin Garrett described Dixie Hills as a small area of "small, neat, middle-class homes" of African Americans; "near the edge lies a large, low-rent, privately owned apartment complex which curves around a small shopping center". There were no swimming pools or shade trees or entertainment facilities.[''Atlanta and Environs, Vol. 3'', Franklin Miller Garrett, p. 484](_blank)
/ref> After a riot in June 1967,[''Race and the Shaping of Twentieth-Century Atlanta'', Ronald H. Bayor, p.142](_blank)
/ref> the city dedicated resources to build a path to Anderson Park, a baseball diamond and shower stalls;
Government
Dixie Hills lies in NPU J.
Parks
* Anderson Park[
]
Schools
* Turner Middle School[
]
People
Atlanta Child Murders prime suspect Wayne Williams
Wayne Bertram Williams (born May 27, 1958) is an American convicted murderer and suspected serial killer who is serving life imprisonment for the 1981 killing of two men in Atlanta, Georgia. Although never tried, he is nonetheless believed to be ...
was born and raised in Dixie Hills. Many of the victims disappeared from the neighborhood.
References
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Neighborhoods in Atlanta