History

A cartoon drawing of a rooster, two hens, two chicks, and a hatchling along with a drawing of a chicken coop.

Smyrna October 21, 2024

Smyrna’s thriving 1911 poultry industry

[This is an evergreen article that we periodically edit, expand and republish, about the history of Cobb County and its cities. This one is about the thriving poultry industry that…

Marietta History Center taken from other side of railroad tracks

Marietta August 24, 2024

Marietta History Center will present “The Secrets and Scandals of Colonial Georgia.”

The Marietta History Center (MHC) announced on the City of Marietta website that the first event for its Fall programming schedule will feature Amy Albers, Georgia Room Library Assistant. On…

Marietta August 23, 2024

Marietta History Center highlights the role of typewriters during WWII

Image: section from a Remington ad created around 1914, screenshot from a December 1914 issue of the August Herald from the Georgia Historic Newspapers collection The clatter of typewriters is…

Chattahoochee RiverLands August 7, 2024

The Bagby brothers: Bandits of the Chattahoochee

[Editor’s note: This is an evergreen article I frequently resurrect and rework as our readership increases, because the Bagby brothers were a fascinating throwback to Depression-era roving bandits, and they…

A U.S. map breaking into red and blue fragments

Opinion July 16, 2024

The Case of George Wallace: How The Public Votes After Assassination Attempts

By John A. Tures, Professor of Political Science, LaGrange College As we mourn the death of a shooting victim and pray for the surviving Trump rally attendees who were wounded,…

Chattahoochee River looking south from Highway 78 toward the site of the South Cobb Water Reclamation Facility repair

Cobb County July 12, 2024

Friends of Smyrna Library to host lecture on Civil War “Chattahoochee River Line”

Photo: Chattahoochee River from the Hwy 278 bridge looking southward — Larry Felton Johnson The Friends of Smyrna Library will hold a lecture this Sunday on the Civil War fortifications…

Austell June 3, 2024

1911 crime story from Austell; a 16-year-old bride flees with her burglar husband

By Larry Felton Johnson I’m going to do this introduction in first-person, because I want to make a personal observation about the story I’ve reprinted below. There are references in…

An AI-generated graphic of a wreck involving a steam locomotive

Powder Springs May 28, 2024

Powder Springs History: a 1907 train wreck

Image generated by DALL-E from OpenAI Trains played a very important part in Cobb County’s history, and the county still has active lines of the two largest freight haulers: CSX…

Grainy photo of alleged forger Horace C. Gray from a 1910 newspaper

Marietta May 27, 2024

Horace C. Gray: Criminal mastermind or harmless blowhard?

Yesterday we ran a Marietta history article based on a 1910 crime feature from the Atlanta Georgian. The Georgian was a newspaper published from 1906 to 1939. For most of…

Marietta May 26, 2024

1910 in Marietta: a con artist jailed, then released, in bizarre forgery case

Flim flam artists have fascinated the public, at least since their exploits were featured, in sometimes exaggerated ways, by pulp fiction writers and tabloid journalists in the late 19th and…

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Cobb County December 26, 2024

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