Buckhead

This guide to Buckhead in Atlanta follows Elizabeth Lizzie McDuffie, who began work as a teenage maid in a grand household around 1901, and the residents of Macedonia Park, also called Bagley Park, the Black settlement a mile from the mansions whose families staffed those same houses. You'll hear about back staircases, in-house call boards that could summon a servant at any hour, and Lizzie's eventual move to serve in the White House. Stand among Buckhead's towers and consider whose labor built the polish that made this neighborhood famous.