What was opened just before the First Houses located in Atlanta, Georgia, that replaced a shantytown just south of Georgia Tech along Techwood Drive as America's first what?
Tanyard Bottom 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.
Graniteville Historic District (South Carolina) The Graniteville Historic District encompasses one of the very first textile company towns to be established in the Southern United States. Built in the late 1840s by William Gregg near Aiken, South Carolina, and now known as Graniteville, it was modeled after New England mill towns. Gregg used the success of this enterprise to advocate for the industrialization of the South, laying the groundwork for its eventual domination of the American textile industry. The district, which includes the original canal, mill building, mill worker housing, and a period church, was designated a National Historic Landmark District in 1978.