In 1979 the City of Decatur reached back into the community’s past to find a new name for a distressed neighborhood. The Town of Oakhurst had existed for less than half a decade when Decatur annexed it in 1915. Nearly 65 years later, the City revived the Oakhurst name when it rebranded Southwest Decatur.

Oakhurst corporate limits, 1910-1915. Bing Maps base map.

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