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Photograph of Tanyard Bottom a.k.a. Tech Flats

Tanyard Bottom, also known as Tech Flats, was a shantytown just south of Georgia Tech along Techwood Drive. It was replaced in the 1930s with the Techwood Homes, America's first public housing project. It is currently the site of Centennial Place Apartments.

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
The Strip (Tenth Street)
Washington–Rawson
Planned but never built
Peters Park
Settlements absorbed into Atlanta
Battle Hill/Westwood Park
Bellwood
Easton
Johnsontown
Macedonia Park
Plunkett Town
Standing Peachtree
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

33°46′5.71″N 84°23′32.57″W / 33.7682528°N 84.3923806°W / 33.7682528; -84.3923806

References

  1. Johnson, Charla. "Old Atlanta". The Mainline. Retrieved 6 January 2022.


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