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History September 18, 2022

Upcoming Sankofa Festival previews new museum in Cobb opening in 2023 that will look at life of Africans before slavery

By Arielle Robinson When European slave traders kidnapped Africans from the western and central portions of the African continent during the Transatlantic slave trade, not only were people kidnapped, entire…

Marietta History Center taken from other side of railroad tracks

History September 14, 2022

Color My Teacher: an oral history of Black Cobb County educators

The Marietta History Center continues its Diverse Cobb programming with Color My Teacher, an oral history project featuring interviews with Black teachers, counselors and principals. The showing will last through…

History September 6, 2022

Marietta History Center to host KSU’s exhibit “The Tragedy of War: Japanese American Internment”

The Marietta History Center announced that it will continue hosting a series of traveling exhibits from Kennesaw State University’s Museum of History and Holocaust Education. The second temporary exhibit in…

History July 28, 2022

Marietta History Center to present talk by Christa McCay on cemetery preservation

Christa McCay, M.H.P. (Master of Heritage Preservation) will give a talk on cemetery preservation as part of the Marietta History Center‘s On Doing History lecture series. McCay has worked for…

History June 13, 2022

Celebrate the Cultures of Cobb with the Marietta History Center Pop-in

The Marietta History Center will celebrate the Cultures of Cobb County with a Pop-in on June 18 from 10 a.m – 4 p.m. The details are in the following announcement…

History June 6, 2022

Marietta History Center to host showings of Lemon Street Chronicles in celebration of Juneteenth

The Marietta History Center will host a showing of the four volumes of The Lemon Street Chronicles in the weeks leading up to Marietta’s Juneteenth celebration on June 18. The…

History June 3, 2022

Author of Death at the Edges of Empire to give talk, book-signing at Marietta History Center

The following news release was posted to the City of Marietta website about an upcoming talk and book signing by Shannon Bontranger, Ph.D. of Georgia Highlands College: Please join the…

In an obviously old photo a line of Black men and women in formal dress posing for photo .

History May 26, 2022

Cobb NAACP to host Juneteenth celebration on Marietta Square

The Cobb NAACP will host its annual Juneteenth celebration on Marietta Square celebrating the end of slavery. The Juneteenth holiday and the event are described in the news release below,…

History May 21, 2022

Marietta History Center to feature talk by Stephanie L. Cherry-Farmer June 11

The City of Marietta posted the following notice about a presentation by Stephanie L. Cherry-Farmer, the National Register and Survey Program Manager at the Georgia Historic Preservation Division, to be…

William Root House, a two story wooden pre-Civil War house

History May 17, 2022

Cobb Landmarks to conduct a one-day series of lectures on practical aspects of historic preservation

The City of Marietta announced on its website that Cobb Landmarks will conduct a one-day Historic Preservation Lecture Series on June 25, 2022 at the William Root House. The series…

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