Neighborhood
Segregation
after 1865 onward
City of Atlanta
General area only

Reynoldstown

Settled after the Civil War by freed people who worked for the railroads, and named for the family of Madison Reynolds, a formerly enslaved man who became a local landowner and storekeeper. It has seen rising prices and gentrification since the 1990s.

See it on the map All Segregation records

The record

Madison Reynolds came to the area from Covington in 1866 with his wife Sarah and their seven children, and the community was named in the family's honor (Georgia Historic Preservation Division). Atlanta annexed Reynoldstown in 1909. White subdivisions developed east of Flat Shoals between 1905 and 1930, and after World War II white flight left the neighborhood predominantly Black by 1960. Since the 1990s rising property values and infill housing have brought new residents, and Wikipedia says the neighborhood has shifted from majority Black to majority white. The Reynoldstown Historic District was listed on the National Register on April 3, 2003.

Today: The BeltLine crosses it north to south; the Inman Park/Reynoldstown MARTA station is on its northern edge.

Where on the map: Pearl St (west), Moreland Ave (east), I-20 (south), the CSX Hulsey Yard (north).