Mount Harmony Church Cemetery (Slideshow)
Mount Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery: a historic cemetery adjacent to a new one Mount Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery is on Veteran’s Memorial Highway in Mableton, Georgia, about 3.2 miles west…
Search Results for Cobb County cemeteries
Revisiting an old article: Bandits and a comedian at Riverview Memorial Garden
On slow news days we’ve begun reviving some of our earliest articles, written when the site was called River Edges. We renamed ourselves to the Courier after noticing that there…
Kennesaw issues new executive order defining essential businesses
The City of Kennesaw released a fourth executive order that clarifies the meaning of in-person contact and defines essential businesses. Here is the text of the press release explaining the…
Powder Springs declares state of emergency
The City of Powder Springs issued an executive order effective March 25 that outlined the details of the city’s state of emergency declaration adopted March 16. The city distributed the…
When Mableton was (and shortly thereafter wasn’t) a city
Mableton was a city between August 19, 1912 and August 17, 1916. Below are the documents from the Georgia legislature incorporating Mableton, and then dissolving it. This is the first…
Davis Chapel Cemetery
The Davis Cemetery and Chapel, more often called the Davis Chapel Cemetery, is on Veterans Memorial Highway at South Gordon Road, on the western edge of Mableton. The cemetery is…
Mable family cemetery on Floyd Road
The Mable family cemetery would probably be among the dozens of old, small, family cemeteries barely noticed from the roadways, except for an accident of history. In 1881 Robert Mable turned…
Rose Hill Cemetery Austell GA
Rose Hill Cemetery is a beautiful and well-kept historic burial ground on the edge of Austell’s downtown. The cemetery is nearly exactly as old as Austell itself. Like many cemeteries…
Hooper-McWilliams Cemetery (Slideshow)
The Hooper-McWilliams Cemetery began on the property of Cobb County pioneer settler Thomas Hooper in the early 19th century. It’s now adjacent to the larger Riverview Memorial Park but is…
Bandits, Pioneers, and a Comedian: a visit to Riverview Memorial Garden
The hilly terrain turns what would otherwise be a nondescript perpetual care cemetery into a beautiful, peaceful memorial park. From the tallest hill, surrounded by headstones and hundreds of the…