poncey–highland is home to the jimmy carter presidential library, established in 1982. the carter center occupies an area of land that was originally the neighborhood of copenhill, and which was razed to build an interchange between eight-lane highways: interstate 485 (now stone mountain freeway) east and west, and georgia 400 and interstate 675 north and south. the development was successfully stopped by the surrounding neighborhoods, leaving freedom parkway in the area where gdot had already demolished over 500 homes.