Hemphill Avenue

1911 map showing the Hemphill Avenue neighborhood

The Hemphill Avenue neighborhood was until the late 1960s a multi-racial working-class neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia roughly bounded by 10th Street, Hemphill Avenue, North Avenue and Marietta Street. It contained homes, churches (including Ponders Street Baptist) and schools including the State Street school.

A 1965 plan to expand Georgia Tech into the neighborhood signaled the beginning of the neighborhood's evacuation over the following years, in most cases by buying the homeowners out. Hemphill itself was a major city thoroughfare connecting Buckhead, the Atlantic Steel Mill, Techwood Homes and Downtown.^[1]

References

↑ Webb, Chris (2003-03-14). "Hemphill's heyday ended with westward campus growth". The Technique. Retrieved 2011-11-21.

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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

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Coordinates: 33°46′41″N 84°24′14″W / 33.778°N 84.404°W / 33.778; -84.404

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