Underwood Hills is a neighborhood in the West Midtown district of Atlanta, Georgia

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History

The neighborhood was founded in 1902, when it was dubbed Northside Park, but construction in the area, in what at that point was the edge of the city, didn't pick up steam until the 1920s. Many residents then were employed by the nearby Seaboard Coast Line Railroad

Seaboard Coast Line Railroad

The Seaboard Coast Line Railroad was a former Class I railroad company operating in the Southeastern United States beginning in 1967. Its passenger operations were taken over by Amtrak in 1971...

. Building in the neighborhood continued through the post-World War II boom period. By the 1960s, construction of Interstate 75

Interstate 75 in Georgia

In the U.S. state of Georgia, Interstate 75 runs north–south along the U.S. Route 41 corridor on the western side of the state, passing through the cities of Valdosta, Macon and Atlanta. It is also designated — but not signed — as State Route 401...

through northwest Atlanta removed some houses and turned the area into a residential island surrounded by the highway and major commercial corridors.