Chicopee Park — Attraction in Doraville

The name of this park is same for textile mill community up near Gainesville Georgia. Earle Draper is the mill planner who designed the mill and its village called Chicopee. There’s another Chicopee in Athens, Georgia. Draper had a branch office in Atlanta and this park may have something to do with it. He ran his office from 1922 until 1927, the very year the Chicopee Mill went into operation. That Doraville would have a street and park with same name is quite...

"Park" in this instance means "playground". Also, only residents of the tiny little street leading to it are allowed to use it. No parking because the only people allowed are within...

Nice little neighborhood park. Sometimes there seems to be some shady things going down in the woods behind. I wouldn't necessarily send my kids here alone, but always glad to be...