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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 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…

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…

Chattahoochee RiverLands July 23, 2023

Don’t bury the lede: an episode from Chattahoochee River history

This reworking of an earlier article resulted from our coverage of the Chattahoochee RiverLands project. I determined that since the project spans both sides of the river, in addition to…

Bolton, Cobb County, Mableton, Riverside, Whittier Mill Village May 21, 2016

The Bagby brothers – elusive bandits of the Chattahoochee

The man sat in the tree by the banks of the river, waiting patiently. He was thin, with wiry arms, well suited to climbing. He was comfortable in the tree,…

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…

From the Editor August 14, 2015

Welcome to River Edges

River Edges is an online news publication covering both sides of the Chattahoochee on the Cobb County/City of Atlanta border, roughly south and west of I-75. Our area of focus…

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Defense industry December 22, 2024

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