page_title: Druid Hills, Georgia
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Druid Hills, Georgia / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Rainbow Terrace 1922
context_page_description: Druid Hills is a community which includes both a census-designated place in unincorporated DeKalb County, Georgia, United States, as well as a neighborhood of the city of Atlanta. The CDP's population was 14,568 at the 2010 census. The CDP formerly contained the main campus of Emory University and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention; they were annexed by Atlanta in 2018. The Atlanta-city section of Druid Hills is one of Atlanta's most affluent neighborhoods with a mean household income in excess of $238,500.
context_section_description: The planned community was initially conceived by Joel Hurt, and developed with the effort of Atlanta's leading families, including Coca-Cola founder Asa Candler. It contains some of Atlanta's historic mansions from the late 19th and early 20th century. Druid Hills includes the main campus of Emory University, which relocated to Atlanta in 1914.
  Druid Hills was designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and was one of his last commissions.  A showpiece of the design was the string of parks along Ponce de Leon Avenue, which was designated as Druid Hills Parks and Parkways and listed on the National Register of Historic Places on April 11, 1975.  The remainder of the development was listed on the Register as the Druid Hills Historic District on October 25, 1979.  Later the Park and Parkways district was consolidated into the Druid Hills Historic District. The other historic districts in Druid Hills are:
  Emory University District, added in 1975
  University Park-Emory Highlands-Emory Estates Historic District, added in 1998
  Emory Grove Historic District, added in 2000.
  By 2015 there was a bill in the Georgia Legislature which called for annexing more of Druid Hills into Atlanta.
caption: Rainbow Terrace, home of Lucy Beall Candler Owens Heinz Leide at 1610 Ponce de Leon Ave., 1922
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