Linnentown
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Linnentown was a Black neighborhood in Athens, Georgia that was destroyed in the 1960s by an urban renewal project of the University of Georgia (UGA) and the city government of Athens.[1] Comprising an area of 22 acres, the neighborhood had about fifty families who were forced out, via eminent domain,[2] to make room for student housing for UGA;[3] the dormitories, Russell Hall, Creswell Hall, and Brumby Hall now stand on the site.[4] UGA associate professor of Geography, Jerry Shannon, estimates that the combination of undervaluing the property at the time of sale and forcing residents into areas "of the city where property values have not climbed as quickly"[5] has cost residents over $5 million of generational wealth.[6]