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…
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…
The Mable family cemetery would probably be among the dozens of old, small, family cemeteries barely noticed from the roadways, except for an accident of history. In 1881 Robert Mable turned…
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…
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….
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…
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…
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…