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

Marietta August 29, 2024

Marietta Roots Craft Beer Festival to benefit historic William Root House Museum

William Root House (photo by Larry Felton Johnson) Would you like to sample locally produced craft beer and food from local restaurants while supporting historic preservation? On September 13, several…

Marietta August 23, 2024

Root House Harvest Dinner returns to the historic Marietta house

Photo: Root House (Larry Felton Johnson) The City of Marietta posted the following announcement to its website about the Root House Harvest Dinner, to be held at the historic William…

Marietta August 23, 2024

Marietta History Center highlights the role of typewriters during WWII

Image: section from a Remington ad created around 1914, screenshot from a December 1914 issue of the August Herald from the Georgia Historic Newspapers collection The clatter of typewriters is…

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…

From the Editor August 16, 2024

What was advertising like in 19th-century Cobb County newspapers?

Even before I became a journalist, old newspapers and magazines fascinated me. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, I’d visit the Carnegie Library in downtown Atlanta and scroll through…

Marietta July 10, 2024

William Root House highlights how families kept cool in 19th Century Marietta

The William Root House and Museum has a special feature for the summer months, especially relevant in light of the scorching heat we’ve experienced over the past few weeks. In…

Mableton June 20, 2024

“A bench by the road” placed to commemorate enslaved people in Cobb County

On June 18, the day before Juneteenth, a group of people gathered at the Concord Road trailhead of the Silver Comet Trail to watch the unveiling of the “Bench by…

Marietta June 12, 2024

Marietta’s historic William Root House to present free Juneteeth program

The William Root House Museum will highlight Juneteenth during a special Saturday, June 15 event. Juneteenth is named for the date that U.S. Major General Gordon Granger read General Order…

Marietta May 26, 2024

1910 in Marietta: a con artist jailed, then released, in bizarre forgery case

Flim flam artists have fascinated the public, at least since their exploits were featured, in sometimes exaggerated ways, by pulp fiction writers and tabloid journalists in the late 19th and…

Transportation May 21, 2024

How Veterans Memorial Highway got its start

We take the major roads running through Cobb County for granted now, but as the county entered the 20th century, there were very few paved roads. Trips by automobile that…

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Marietta September 17, 2024

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