Empty Nest
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Conservation subdivisions City defers CSO vote ►►PAGE 3
Help begins at The Hub New resource center opens ►►PAGE 28
What goes around…
Pay-it-forward group helps one of their own ►►PAGE 32
September 23, 2015 | miltonherald.com | 75,000 circulation Revue & News, Johns Creek Herald, Milton Herald & Forsyth Herald combined | 50¢ | Volume 10, No. 38
‘Lahkapani’ eyes idyllic development By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenmediagroup.com MILTON, Ga. – Off Arnold Mill Road there is a long gravel path called Lackey Road. This road meanders past farmland, through woods and over hills. It’s a picturesque view of the country and it’s only minutes from downtown Roswell or Crabapple. Deep in these woods is where you can find a development called Lahkapani. Sitting on more than 200 acres, Lahkapani is notable for one thing – it isn’t flat. It has hills and ravines, streams and man-made lakes. It’s also fairly remote. Someone standing at the bottom of one of the ravines can hear no sounds of the outside world. For one of the property owners, Bernard Wolff, he sees this not only as a benefit, but one of its primary selling points.
“You feel like you are up in the mountains,” Wolff said from his back porch, overlooking a valley with a large pond stocked with fish. “This is breathtaking scenery.” Wolff’s family bought the land in the 1940s, adding on piece by piece over the decades. His grandfather dammed up the streams on the land, making lakes that are now populated by fish and wildlife. There are about three miles of walking or riding trails winding their way through the woods. Wolff said Lahkapani is an Indian name – not NativeAmerican Indian, but rather from the country India. His father served in Burma and British India during World War II as a doctor. During his time there, he befriended a British family with a tea plantation. After the
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‘Friends’ come together to open barn
Library group holds grand opening By JONATHAN COPSEY jonathan@appenmediagroup.com
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Milton resident Bernard Wolff shows off his 200-plus acre tract of land called Lahkapani. He hopes it will one day become a perfect example of what a conservation subdivision can be.
TUTORING
MILTON, Ga. – With appropriate fanfare, the Friends of the Milton Library opened their new home Sept. 12 beside the Milton Library. Fitting for Milton, it’s a large, white barn. The barn housing the Friends also contains nearly 10,000 used books waiting to be sold. The money from their sale will go to help programming at the library. “I can’t think of any place more appropriate,” said Bob Meyers, a local historian and author of a book on the area’s historic barns. The Dinsmore family used
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Fulton County Commissioner Liz Hausmann receives a plaque thanking her for her help in getting the Friends of the Milton Library a home. to own the land. It was a farm when they bought it in 1945. T. R. Dinsmore (the “T.R.” stands for Teddy Roosevelt) worked in the brick store that sits at the
corner of Crabapple Road and Birmingham Highway. On the original 8.5 acres
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