[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…
[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…
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,…
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…
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…