Cabbagetown (/kʌˈbɑːdʒtʌn/) is an intown neighborhood on the east side of Atlanta, Georgia, United States, abutting historic Oakland Cemetery.
Built during a period when many industries were relocating to the post-Reconstruction South in search of cheap labor, it opened shortly following the International Cotton Exposition, which was held in Atlanta in an effort to attract investment to the region.
One is that the mostly transplanted poor Appalachian residents, largely of Scots-Irish descent, who worked in the nearby Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill would grow cabbages in the front yards of their houses, so that one could distinctly smell the odor of cooking cabbage coming from the neighborhood.
A variation of this legend is that a Ford Model T took a sharp turn at one of the main intersections of Cabbagetown, overturned, and spilled its cargo of cabbages on the street.
For over half a century, Cabbagetown remained home to a tight-knit, homogenous, and semi-isolated community of people whose lives were anchored by the mill, until it closed in 1977.
As with many other east side neighborhoods, revitalization was sparked by an influx of artists in the 1980s, including Panorama Ray, who operated a photo gallery on the main drag, Carroll Street.
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