Shermantown was a late 19th-century African-American shantytown in Stone Mountain Village neighborhood of Stone Mountain in Dekalb County, Georgia. It was named after General Sherman whose troops occupied Atlanta after the Civil War. It sits in the shadow of Stone Mountain Park.
Former neighborhoods, districts and settlements of Atlanta, Georgia | |
---|---|
City districts and neighborhoods | |
Planned but never built | |
Settlements absorbed into Atlanta | |
Shantytowns and slums | |
Demolished public housing projects in Atlanta - Existing neighborhoods of Atlanta |
This Georgia (U.S. state) location article is a stub. You can help Misplaced Pages by expanding it. |