Highlight • Historical Site
Auburn Avenue
Hiking
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Martin Luther King Jr. National Historic Site
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July 19, 2025
Hiking
The houses are typically one room wide and up to four rooms deep. They are called
"shotgun" houses because the interior and exterior doors are aligned, so that a shot could supposedly be fired through them from front to back. Another theory is that the name comes from the African word
"to-gun," meaning a gathering place.
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Elevation 310 m
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