Sandy Bottom

The church was in Sandy Bottom, named in the 1950s for the ash that fell on the area from steel mills.

Underdawgs David Woods 2010

Sandy Bottom was populated by transients, drug dealers, and bootleggers.

Underdawgs David Woods 2010

Sandy Bottom faced nearly all the problems that a neighborhood can face—from drugs to economic decline, from poverty to youth in trouble, from unemployment to absentee landlords.

Underdawgs David Woods 2010

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Archive 2007-05-01 2007

Federal Hill, which looks over Sandy Bottom to Marye's Heights, a thousand yards away.

Recollections of a Virginian in the Mexican, Indian, and Civil wars, 1894

Postmaster-General like quietly slipping into a place like Sandy Bottom and catching the postmaster reading over the postal cards and committing them to memory.

Comic History of the United States Bill Nye 1873

We fell in with this Coast 21 Leagues to the Westward of Straits Le Mair, and ranged the coast from thence to the Strait within 2 or 3 Leagues of the Land, and had soundings all the way from 40 to 20 fathoms, a Gravelly and Sandy Bottom.

Captain Cook's Journal During the First Voyage Round the World James Cook 1753

"It's not a simple project," said Sandy Bottom biologist Dawn Currier.

dailypress.com - Breaking news 2010

The new cages increased the number at Sandy Bottom to 12.

dailypress.com - Breaking news 2010

The direct punishment was comparatively mild: “a term of imprisonment of two years which was suspended for three years’ unsupervised probation,” plus a fine of $250, and an order “to stay away from the North Carolina Arboretum and from a location known as Sandy Bottom.”

The Volokh Conspiracy » Hate Crimes Laws, Anti-Gay Views, and Public Accountants: 2009