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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…
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…