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Collier Hills

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Collier Hills from Northside and Echota Intersection towards Buckhead
Collier Hills from Northside and Echota Intersection towards Buckhead

Collier Hills is a residential neighborhood in Atlanta, Georgia. The area gets its name from the family whose homestead was broadly located in the southwest corner of the intersection of Peachtree St. and Collier Rd. Andrew Jackson Collier, a member of this family and early pioneer of the area, operated an antebellum grist mill off Tanyard Creek, near Collier Rd.

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Collier Hills
Greystone Road Northwest, Atlanta

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Greystone Road Northwest 1912
30318 Atlanta
Georgia, United States
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Collier Hills from Northside and Echota Intersection towards Buckhead
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