Shermantown (Atlanta)

Illustration of Shermantown from Harper's New Monthly Magazine, 1880

Shermantown was a late 19th-century African-American shantytown in what is now the Sweet Auburn neighborhood of Atlanta, Georgia. It was named after General Sherman whose troops occupied Atlanta after the Civil War.

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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