The Buckhead Coalition, a prominent organization dedicated to enhancing the quality of life in Buckhead and its surrounding areas, is proud to announce a donation of $2,000 to the Friends of Piney Grove. The contribution represents the proceeds from the annual Buckhead Guidebook and will support the preservation and restoration efforts of the historic Piney Grove Cemetery.

Piney Grove Cemetery, located in the heart of Buckhead off Lenox Road, holds tremendous cultural and historical significance. Once a vibrant African American community dating back to the 1800s, Piney Grove Baptist Church and its adjacent cemetery were central to a tight-knit neighborhood. Tragically, the cemetery has fallen into disrepair over the years and is now barely recognizable, engulfed by vegetation.

The view at the Bluffs at Lenox isn’t half bad if you think about it.

Outside of the residents’ windows and along the Buckhead condominium complex’s road, less than a mile south of Lenox Square, lies a small forest full of birds and small animals….

In near-perfect handwriting, an unknown individual wrote a plea on the back of a program celebrating the 106th anniversary of Piney Grove Missionary Baptist Church.

The writer had prepared remarks for a meeting with Peachtree Park residents…

February is Black History month, and as such I like to turn our collective attention to those all-but-forgotten communities which once dotted the Buckhead landscape.

If you are a frequent reader or a student of local history, you will know most of these. There are some recently introduced wrinkles, however, that will make this particular column of interest even though I seemingly write something similar every February.

Hidden in a bustling pocket of Buckhead, surrounded by half-million-dollar town homes being built in the Georgia clay, sits a historic black cemetery, unnoticed and untended.

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