Jenningstown (Atlanta)

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.[https://books.google.com/books?id=U9WoypDYbBsC Allison Dorsey, To Build Our Lives Together, p. 34ff.][https://books.google.com/books?id=C_IGvaT0stUC&pg=PA280 Carolyn Quick Tillery Southern homecoming traditions: recipes and remembrances] It had rough roads and an inadequate water supply.[https://books.google.com/books?id=S3td82ttfZUC Joseph O. Jewell, Race, social reform, and the making of a middle class, pp.77ff.] Jenningstown is mentioned into the 20th century, though its boundaries were described as loosely defined; Beaver Slide was its southern border.[https://books.google.com/books?id=NGgHQ9KKWHgC Joseph Gerteis, Class and the color line, p.110]