The county cited water quality issues and ordered a clean-up of the area, which ultimately led to the razing of the neighborhood.

From 1920 to 1940 the area continued to be home to a large number of African-Americans, many of whom worked locally as domestic help in the form of maids, laundresses, chauffeurs, and yardmen.

There were also a number of gardeners for the local golf clubs, caddies, brick masons, pin boys who worked at the local bowling alley, in-home nurses, shoe shiners, truck drivers for the ice company, garbage collectors, fertilizer plant staff, and cotton mill workers.

Many of the residents also worked at local drugstores, bowling alleys, hotels, private homes, and industrial companies.

Only 27 of the approximately 45 residents interred at the Mount Olive cemetery have been identified via newspaper and death certificate research.

That August, the board ordered a clean up of the area and called for implementation of septic systems and improved water facilities.

In September the county legal department was instructed to "negotiate with the property owners and make all arrangements necessary" for the park to be established where the homes were.

[11] Future publications about this area allude to the fact that the county was looking to push African-Americans out of an increasingly white area that had become attractive to white families that were "booming" after World War II, was building "pretty homes", and did not want the "ugly slum" "[e]ncroaching on the properties that hard-working citizens have sweated blood to pay for.

[16] In November 1948, the Fulton County Commission approved an additional $50,000 to be raised to purchase the 16 properties "before the end of the year."

Olive church cemetery on the edge of the park, was sold by the county on the courthouse steps for back taxes.

When a developer applied for a permit to remove the graves, the Buckhead Heritage Society's Wright Mitchell,[28] who practices business litigation, filed a lawsuit pro bono on behalf of Elon Butts Osby, a Bagley descendant whose parents had moved to the city's largely undeveloped northwestern fringe after leaving Macedonia Park.