Atkins Park (which is in Atlanta, Geogia close to the neighborhood of Virginia-Highland), was first used as farmland and then was purchased by Edwin Wiley Grove (who owned a pharmaceutical company that provided the means for him to own the estate) between 1902 and 1905.
Atkins Park is an intown neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia, nestled against the southeast corner of the neighborhood of Virginia-Highland, west of Briarcliff Avenue and north of Ponce de Leon Avenue ("Ponce"). The first use of the land after its formal platting was farmland. Between 1902 and 1905, Edwin Wiley Grove (a St. Louis businessman who later developed the famous Grove Park Inn and the Grove Arcade in Asheville, North Carolina) purchased the land. He founded the Paris Medicine Company, creating and producing its most well-known patent medicine products, Grove's Tasteless Chill Tonic and Laxative Bromo Quinine tablets. Edwin Wiley Grove (18501927) was a self-made millionaire and entrepreneur. 
