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.
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