Dunwoody is a city located in DeKalb County, Georgia, United States. As a northern suburb of Atlanta, Dunwoody is share of the Atlanta metropolitan area. It was incorporated as a city on December 1, 2008 but its Place establishment dates support to the into the future 1830s. As of 2019, the city has a population of 49,356, up from 46,267 in the 2010 census.

The Dunwoody area was acknowledged in the upfront 1830s and is named for Major Charles Dunwody (1828–1905), an extra “o” added later the incorrect spelling of the name upon a banking note. Charles Dunwody originally returned to Roswell after skirmish in the Civil War, in which he fought for the Confederates.

One of Dunwoody’s most historic buildings dates from 1829. The Ebenezer Primitive Baptist Church, at the corner of Roberts Drive and Spalding Drive, is still active to this date and is as well as the house to one of the city’s oldest cemeteries, where many of the founding fathers of Dunwoody are buried. The first public school, Dunwoody Elementary, first stood close the city middle at the intersection of Chamblee-Dunwoody Road and Mount Vernon Road. It was in continuous operation from 1911 to 1986. A flare destroyed the school’s cafeteria in 1966, which was upon the corner of Womack Road and Chamblee-Dunwoody Road. On that site today, the Dunwoody branch of the Dekalb County Public Library now operates along bearing in mind the North Dekalb Cultural Arts Center. In 1881, the Roswell Railroad opened and ran along what is now Chamblee-Dunwoody Road north to the Chattahoochee River. It operated for 40 years, and in 1905, President Theodore Roosevelt made a advocate whistle stop in Dunwoody along the showing off to Roswell, Georgia.

On account of the railroad, Dunwoody developed into a small crossroads community. The community continued to ensue and prosper even after the railroad shut by the side of in 1921. Dunwoody remained rural until suburban residential momentum was initiated in the 1960s. In 1971, the Spruill relations sold a large ration of their property for the construction of Perimeter Mall, with the triumph of Dunwoody Village in the works the similar year.