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Uncategorized October 18, 2024

Southern Museum in Kennesaw to transform into a winter wonderland December 14

Are you looking for a holiday event where craft and artistry is on display, where you are surrounded by model trains, and where a choir presents holiday favorites? The City…

Kennesaw July 31, 2024

Kennesaw museum’s Southern Railway caboose to be restored

Photo from the City of Kennesaw work session agenda packet By Rebecca Gaunt The Southern Railway caboose that has sat outside Kennesaw’s Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History…

Kennesaw June 18, 2024

Public has rare chance to board famous Civil War locomotive at Kennesaw’s Southern Museum

The City of Kennesaw submitted the following news release: The popular Railroad Rendezvous event will return to the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History on Saturday, July 20….

A graphic with a flag, a cocktail glass and a banjo

Kennesaw May 24, 2024

Kennesaw’s Southern Museum to host Southern Spirits July 3

Image above created using DALL-E from OpenAI The City of Kennesaw distributed the following news release about a fundraiser for the Southern Museum coinciding with the city’s Salute to America…

An Norfolk Southern engine pulling a long line of boxcar, tankers and other cars starting through a crossing in downtown Austell GA

Kennesaw January 11, 2024

Trains! Trains! Trains! comes to Southern Museum the weekend of Jan 27

Whether you’re a fan of model trains or of full-sized ones, an event is returning to the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History that is sure to give…

Brick Kennesaw government building with four tall wooden columns

Kennesaw June 24, 2023

Southern Museum offers rare chance to board the locomotive of The General of Andrews Raid fame

The City of Kennesaw distributed the following press release about a rare opportunity to board the locomotive of The General, the train involved in the Civil War incident Andrews Raid….

a 19th Century spinning wheel rolling up yarn

Kennesaw June 8, 2023

This Saturday Kennesaw’s Southern Museum holds demonstrations of day-to-day life during the Civil War

The Southern Museum in downtown Kennesaw will hold demonstrations of the day-to-day tasks of the home front and camp life during the Civil War. The event is this Saturday, June…

Kennesaw March 22, 2023

Kennesaw’s Southern Museum to host a Women’s History Month event

The Southern Museum in downtown Kennesaw, Georgia will host a Women’s History Month celebration event on Saturday, March 25th. The event will include educational stations, a scavenger hunt about women…

Two Black men dressed as Union Civil War soldiers fire muskets

Kennesaw March 19, 2023

Kennesaw’s Southern Museum held an educational event for the closing days of 2023’s Black History Month celebration

By Evan Bursinger The Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History offered an educational event for the Kennesaw area on February 25, to help teach people in the community…

Three children gathered around an electric train set

Kennesaw December 13, 2022

Trains, Trains, Trains! returns to Kennesaw’s Southern Museum

The City of Kennesaw issued the following release about the Southern Museum‘s popular Trains, Trains, Trains event: Kennesaw, GA (December 13, 2022) — The Southern Museum of Civil War and…

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History December 22, 2024

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