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Shermantown (Atlanta)

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Shantytown in Georgia, United States
Illustration of Shermantown from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1880

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
Bedford Pine
Blooming Hill
Brownsville
Copenhill
Decatur Street
Hemphill Avenue
Moreland Park
Murrell's Row
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Planned but never built
Peters Park
Settlements absorbed into Atlanta
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Macedonia Park
Plunkett Town
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Shantytowns and slums
Beaver Slide
Buttermilk Bottom
Darktown
Jackson Row
Jenningstown
Lightning
Shermantown
Slabtown
Tanyard Bottom
Tight Squeeze
Demolished public housing projects in Atlanta - Existing neighborhoods of Atlanta


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