cemeteries

Marietta April 16, 2025

Tombstone cleaning workshop coming to Marietta City Cemetery

(Photo above from Davis Chapel Cemetery — Larry Felton Johnson/Cobb County Courier) The Marietta History Center will continue its series of tombstone cleaning workshops with a session scheduled for Saturday,…

Davis Chapel Cemetery (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

Mableton January 28, 2025

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 December 25, 2024

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…

Cobb County December 15, 2024

Riverview Memorial Park cemetery (with a Slideshow)

[Riverview Memorial Park (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)] by Larry Felton Johnson We’ve decided to revive, and often expand, evergreen articles that were originally published when our readership was low…

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…

Marietta April 27, 2024

Tombstone cleaning workshop at the Marietta City Cemetery May 18

Cleaning a grave marker might seem straightforward, but many headstones and monuments have been damaged by well-meaning people using inappropriate supplies and methods to clean tombstones. The Marietta History Center…

Cobb County February 15, 2024

Cobb County applies for grant to identify and research historic African-American cemeteries

Cobb County distributed the following news release announcing a grant application for assistance with four historic Black cemeteries: Cobb County has submitted a grant application to the National Trust for…

Headstones at Mount Harmony Baptist Church cemetery in Mableton Georgia.

Mableton September 28, 2023

Mount Harmony Church Cemetery in Mableton (with slideshow)

This is a slight reworking of an article we originally published in June of 2018, when the readership for the Cobb County Courier was much smaller than our current traffic….

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,…

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Transportation April 21, 2025

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