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North Druid Hills,GA

Median Incm:$67,956

Population:18,852

North Druid Hills is a census-designated place (CDP) in DeKalb County, Georgia. The area is commonly referred to by Metro Atlantans as the intersection of Briarcliff and North Druid Hills Roads.

As of the census of 2000, there were 18,852 people residing in the North Druid Hills area. The median income for a family was $67,956.

An early settler in this part of DeKalb County was Chapman Powell, whose "Medicine House" cabin was built near 1218 Clairmont Rd. (It has been preserved and relocated to Stone Mountain Park.). Dr. Powell (1798-1870) owned most of the land in the Candler Lake and South Fork Peachtree Creek area during his lifetime.

Major Washington Jackson Houston owned land on the north side of South Fork of Peachtree Creek, in what is now the North Druid Hills CDP. Visitors used to visit Major Houston to buy ground corn meal produced by his 1876 grist mill or to attend social gatherings held on his property.

Major Houston converted the mill into an early hydroelectric plant circa 1900. Atlanta contractor Harry J. Carr, bought Houston's land in the 1920s and constructed the fieldstone & wrought iron home now known as the Houston Mill House.

The DeKalb County School System serves the North Druid Hills area.

Area Residents attend Briar Vista Elementary School, Shamrock Middle School, and Druid Hills High School.  DeKalb School of the Arts, a magnet school is also in the North Druid Hills area.

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