Tanyard Bottom

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.

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

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

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