cemeteries

Davis Chapel Cemetery (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

Mableton September 24, 2023

Davis Chapel Cemetery on Veterans Memorial Highway

[The Cobb County Courier is republishing some of the articles we published at a time when our readership was much lower than our current traffic. This article was originally published…

Mable Family Cemetery (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

Mableton September 13, 2023

The historic cemetery of the family who gave Mableton its name

[This is another article originally published in the first few years of the Cobb County Courier when our visitor count was only around 10,000 per 30-day period. We’ve decided to…

Three headstones with honorifics Mrs and Mr

Race and Racism June 15, 2023

How Black Americans combated racism from beyond the grave

by David B. Parker, Kennesaw State University, [This article first appeared in The Conversation, republished with permission] The Atlanta Journal-Constitution recently published a story about a Black cemetery in Buckhead,…

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…

Marietta October 30, 2021

Guided walking tour of Marietta City Cemetery next Saturday November 6

The City of Marietta website posted the following notice of a cemetery guided walking tour next weekend, hosted by the Marietta Museum of History. MARIETTA – The Marietta City Cemetery…

Headstones at Mount Harmony Baptist Church cemetery in Mableton Georgia.

Cobb County cemeteries June 14, 2018

Mount Harmony Church Cemetery (Slideshow)

Mount Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery: a historic cemetery adjacent to a new one Mount Harmony Baptist Church Cemetery is on Veteran’s Memorial Highway in Mableton, Georgia, about 3.2 miles west…

Cemeteries June 9, 2018

Riverview Memorial Park cemetery (Slideshow)

A little over a year ago we published an article here about Riverview Memorial Park (also called Riverview Memorial Garden in some written records) and some of its notable residents….

Smyrna May 19, 2017

Tucked away on Atlanta Road, Smyrna Memorial Cemetery holds city trailblazers

Thousands of drivers pass downtown Smyrna along Atlanta Road every single day, many of them completely unaware they’re passing one of the city’s most important historic landmarks: the Smyrna Memorial…

Atlanta History, Bolton, Hollywood Cemetery, Iceville, Riverside May 24, 2016

Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery in 1897 – Insolvency and Streetcar Disputes

This is the second installment of a series on the history and current state of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. The sky was clear and the temperature pleasant as the crowd gathered…

Atlanta History, Bolton, Hollywood Cemetery, Riverside May 23, 2016

Hollywood Cemetery’s beginnings

This is the first of a series of articles tracing the history of Atlanta’s Hollywood Cemetery. I’ve been fascinated with Hollywood Cemetery for over ten years. It’s a large cemetery…

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