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Fulton County
=Mountain Park= Roswell, GA 30075 City of Mountain Park webpage

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Mountain Park
Coordinates: 34.0851872, -84.4158125 eBird links: Hotspot map View details Recent visits My eBird links: Location life list Submit data

About Mountain Park
Indian Spring (which is adjacent to the Civic Building) was believed to have medicinal, life-sustaining value by the Cherokee Indians that lived in the area long ago. Braves would leave their homes in the hills and travel miles to retrieve Indian Spring water for an ailing Cherokee chieftain. Local lore holds that those who find their way into Mountain Park and the area of Indian Spring are drawn by the powers of the healing waters. Until the 1960s, Indian Spring was the only source of water for many residents.

For more than 25 years before incorporation in July 1927, Mountain Park was comprised largely of summer cottages of Atlanta's elite. Some of these cottages had, and still have, special names including The Buzzard's Roost, Rossier Holler, The Owl's Nest, Park-Ur-Carcass, Paradise, Buckeye Ridge, Shack-Toe-In, and Nuth-in-Much. More recent residents have continued the tradition of naming their homes, too.

In the mid-1970s, the Mountain Park Village Green was enlarged using reclaimed land from Lake Garret, which had become shallow due to siltation from real estate development upstream. The original sand bottom swimming pool was replaced in 1977 and, in 1993 the pool house was renovated to include handicapped-accessible facilities. In 1989, Mountain Park became the first municipality in Georgia to begin a recycling program.

More recently, the Mountain Park Improvement Club completed several enhancements to the city in 1997 and 1998, including renovation of the Sunday school pavilion, picnic pavilion, and footbridge over Lake Garret dam. From City of Mountain Park webpage

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