The Solomon Goodwin House was located at 3931 Peachtree Road in

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, east of

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city limits. Dating back to 1831, it was the oldest building still standing in

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and the oldest building "Inside the

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". The home once headed up a farm.Goodwin House website
/ref> The area's first white settler was Harris Goodwin, a South Carolinian who homesteaded a tract on both sides of what is now Peachtree Road in the early 1830s. Harris Goodwin later brought his father, Solomon (d. 1850),''Atlanta and Environs: A Chronicle of Its People and Events, 1820s-1870s'', Franklin M. Garrett, p. 103
/ref> to the area. In addition to the home, a small graveyard in which they are buried is located at the site. It was built in 1831 as a log cabin. Between 1839 and 1842, the family built around the cabin, transforming the structure into a Plantation Plain-style home similar to the Tullie Smith House now located at the

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. "Goodwin's" was a scheduled stop on the

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, later the Southern Railway trains traveling between Atlanta and points northeast. In October 2011, the owners of the house, the Martin sisters, great-great-great-great granddaughters of Solomon Goodwin,"DeKalb's oldest home may soon disappear: Brookhaven's Goodwin House for sale and could be demolished", Andisheh Nouraee, ''Creative Loafing'', March 5, 2008
/ref> offered the house free of charge to anyone who would relocate it and maintain it. In 2016, the house was dismantled and relocated to an unnamed site.

References

{{reflist *"160 Years at Coveted Address", ''Atlanta Journal-Constitution'', November 26, 1999
''Historic Dekalb County: An Illustrated History'', Vivian Price
p.5 Houses in DeKalb County, Georgia Houses completed in 1831 Brookhaven, Georgia