A woman from East Cobb is at the center of an ongoing project to preserve a key piece of African and African-American history. Dr. Jontyle Robinson, who has an extensive…
The Marietta Museum of History will celebrate Black women’s history with activities and crafts at its monthly pop-in event on February 20, 2021. The City of Marietta posted the following…
An exhibit of the photographs of Raymond T. Burford is on display at the Marietta Museum of History. Burford was a prominent local photographer who created a visual record of…
Students from Joseph Wheeler High School in Marietta are continuing their campaign to rename the school, named for a Confederate general. Their campaign continues after a recent development, in which…
The Marietta Museum of History posted the following news release announcing its September pop-in event, and other activities to the City of Marietta website: MARIETTA – The Marietta Museum of…
2020’s landscape has-quite obviously- been dominated by a pair of historic developments-the COVID-19 pandemic and the renewed civil rights movement sparked by recent controversial police shootings, exemplified by Black Lives…
The City of Kennesaw announced that the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History will reopen tomorrow. The press release from the city is reprinted below in its entirety….
The North Cobb Senior Center has scheduled a calendar of events for Black History Month that has something for everyone, from festivals to poetry readings to history lectures. The center…
The Smyrna History Museum will re-open its newly revamped and expanded facility to the public on Sunday. The museum is located at 2861 Atlanta Rd. SE, Smyrna. The Smyrna Historical…
Everything changes over time, including museums dedicated to preserving history. The first Smyrna history museum opened in 1939, and 80 years later the newest iteration will celebrate a grand opening…