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.[1] 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.

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Former neighborhoods, districts and settlements of Atlanta, Georgia

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Bedford Pine
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Brownsville
Copenhill
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Peters Park

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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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## References

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

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