History

An automobile ad from the first decade of the 20th century

History December 10, 2023

1899: A high school student comments on Cobb County’s roads

by Larry Felton Johnson In the March 2, 1899 issue of the Marietta Journal (one of the previous names of the Marietta Daily Journal) a letter appeared from a high…

History December 6, 2023

Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery in 1910-1912

This is a revised and expanded version of a story originally run in the Courier in June of 2016. At that time the Cobb County Courier was called River Edges,…

Entrance to Hooper-McWilliams cemetery, probably erected by boy scouts in the late 1990s

History November 26, 2023

Cobb County’s Hooper family and a Civil War mystery

This is an expanded republication of an article originally published by the Courier on January 1, 2017. There is a second part to this article, in which an authority on…

History November 25, 2023

The eventful life of W.A. Peters — Hollywood Cemetery’s sexton who sold customers the same plot

This is an updated republication of an article we published in May of 2016. With the Chattahoochee RiverLands project underway, we hope restoring this beautiful but neglected cemetery on Chattahoochee…

History November 23, 2023

Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery part 2 – Insolvency and Streetcar Disputes

This is an expanded and updated version of an article we published in May of 2016, and was the second installment in a series about Hollywood Cemetery, a large cemetery…

History November 23, 2023

Grave robbery in Cobb County: 1879

Throughout the early years of medical education schools in need of cadavers would often resort to the illegal service of grave robbers, also called “body snatchers.” The most well-known case…

History November 23, 2023

Hollywood Cemetery’s 19th Century beginnings

This is a revised and expanded version of a story originally run in the Courier in May of 2016. At that time the Cobb County Courier was called River Edges,…

History November 23, 2023

Burying the lede: We all had a fantastic time, except one of us was killed

This is a revised and expanded version of a story we originally ran in the earliest days of the Courier, in May of 2016, when our readership was less than…

Section of 1833 map showing original shape of Cobb County (retrieved from http://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/hmap/id:hmap1833t3copy3 at the UGA libraries -- public domain)

Cobb County, History November 11, 2023

How did Cobb County get its name?

This article is an expanded version of one of the earliest articles published on the Cobb County Courier, in 2015. Cobb County, formed in 1832 after the Cherokee were expelled…

History August 12, 2023

It’s the early 20th Century, and the automobile begins its rapid rise to dominate the roads of Cobb County

[Editor’s note: This is a version of an article we published in 2017, when the traffic to our site was around 10,000 visitors per month. We are now more than…

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History

1899: A high school student comments on Cobb County’s roads

Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery in 1910-1912

Cobb County’s Hooper family and a Civil War mystery

The eventful life of W.A. Peters — Hollywood Cemetery’s sexton who sold customers the same plot

Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery part 2 – Insolvency and Streetcar Disputes

Grave robbery in Cobb County: 1879

Hollywood Cemetery’s 19th Century beginnings

Burying the lede: We all had a fantastic time, except one of us was killed

How did Cobb County get its name?

It’s the early 20th Century, and the automobile begins its rapid rise to dominate the roads of Cobb County