Friends of Piney Grove seeks to restore, preserve historic Buckhead cemetery
Originally Published in The Northside Neighbor and authored by Thornton Kennedy on April 5, 2023
“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.
After thanking them, they wrote, “For more than 100 years, this church has been a stabilizing force in our communities. Now, this community and adjoining communities are threatened by a variety of outside forces. If their threat has any good features, it is the unity of these neighborhoods. There was a time our communities could stand alone, but no longer...”