Linnentown Storymap

Linnentown storymap

Linnentown was an African-American neighborhood close to the UGA campus that was erased to make room for student housing in the early 1960s. Starting in Spring 2020, the Community Mapping Lab partnered with the Linnentown Project and the Athens-Clarke County Justice and Memory Project to digitize and analyze records related to the community from UGA’s special collections library and do other work that makes this history more publicly available. This storymap was created through that collaboration in 2022.

Click here to see the Linnentown storymap in full screen mode.