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Jenningstown (Atlanta)

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Jenningstown was a shantytown in Atlanta built on the top of, and around, what was then known as Diamond Hill in the First Ward. Atlanta University was built on the summit, opening in 1869. Its population shortly after the Civil War was 2,490, all black except for some white missionaries living there.[1][2] It had rough roads and an inadequate water supply.[3] Jenningstown is mentioned into the 20th century, though its boundaries were described as loosely defined; Beaver Slide was its southern border.[4]

References

  1. ^ Allison Dorsey, To Build Our Lives Together, p. 34ff.
  2. ^ Carolyn Quick Tillery Southern homecoming traditions: recipes and remembrances
  3. ^ Joseph O. Jewell, Race, social reform, and the making of a middle class, pp.77ff.
  4. ^ Joseph Gerteis, Class and the color line, p.110

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