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Silhouette of a cannon on wheels beside a pyramid of cannon balls

History December 15, 2024

June 11 1864: Dispatch from Kennesaw Mountain

The Georgia Historic Newspapers database contains many interesting articles on the history of Cobb County, the metro Atlanta region, and Georgia. The article reprinted below, a dispatch from Kennesaw Mountain,…

History December 15, 2024

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,…

History December 13, 2024

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 December 11, 2024

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 December 10, 2024

Hollywood Cemetery’s 19th Century beginnings

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

silhouettes of armed people some pointing rifles

History November 18, 2024

Compassion amid chaos − how one of America’s greatest poets became a lifeline for wounded soldiers

by Richard Gunderman, Indiana University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] With over 40 armed conflicts now taking place around the world, the costs of warfare…

History September 8, 2024

An 1895 Atlanta newspaper was asked: “Has the bicycle come to stay?”

[This is one of a group of evergreen articles that we often update and republish. It was originally published in December of last year] We’ve been heavily using Georgia Historic…

History August 20, 2024

A grave robbery in Cobb County: 1879

[We occasionally update and republish our evergreen history articles. This article first appeared in the Courier in November 23, 2023 In the original version of the article we stated we…

History August 9, 2024

Cobb Public Libraries highlight the expansion of the Georgia Historic Newspapers digital collection

Regular readers of the Cobb County Courier know that we often heavily use the Georgia Historic Newspapers website as a source for our history articles. Examples of our articles that…

Mt. Vesuvius erupting doing catastrophic damage to Pompeii, the Greek city below

History June 12, 2024

Records of Pompeii’s survivors have been found – and archaeologists are starting to understand how they rebuilt their lives

by Steven L. Tuck, Miami University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] On Aug. 24, in A.D. 79, Mount Vesuvius erupted, shooting over 3 cubic miles…

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