Atlanta History

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,…

Atlanta History December 14, 2024

Taylor Delk — Hollywood Cemetery’s Notable Outlaw Resident

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 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…

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…

Atlanta Diversity, Atlanta History, Opinion December 25, 2016

Atlanta history, race relations, and tolerance — A Christmas Editorial Comment

Leave it to me to be the Grinch. This morning I rolled out of bed and decided to publish a quick feel-good Christmas message. Since Atlanta history is a life-long…

Atlanta History May 22, 2016

The day Roosevelt High lost the Girl’s High “G” – 1963

The initials ‘GHS’ looming down from a smokestack at Roosevelt High School might not seem like a very big problem with the passage of time. But for the students at…

Atlanta History May 20, 2016

The 1952 Atlanta annexations

In 1952 the City of Atlanta tripled in size, annexing areas to the south, west and north. To the west the communities near and along the Chattahoochee River became part…

Austell, Cobb County, History, Mableton May 18, 2016

A 1911 automobile adventure and the Sweetwater Park Hotel

I read through historic newspapers regularly, with an emphasis on articles from the River Edges target area of west Atlanta and South Cobb. I stumbled across this mysterious little blurb…

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