Veterans Memorial Highway

Puzzles Games and Quizzes August 10, 2026

How Well Do You Know Cobb County Transportation History?

Transportation (and the traffic associated with it) has been a major, and often controversial, topic in Cobb County and the rest of metro Atlanta. But how much do you know…

Detail of Cobb County Police Department STEP Unit vehicle in article about fatal accident on I-75

Crime & Public Safety, Traffic incidents July 3, 2026

Cobb police investigate fatal motorcycle crash on Veterans Memorial Highway

[ The Cobb County Courier has a policy of withholding the names of survivors involved in traffic incidents that are still under investigation] A 23-year-old Powder Springs motorcyclist was killed…

Singer Songwriter Joe South and his wife Jan Tant (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

History June 24, 2026

Joe South and his grave site on Veterans Memorial Highway in Mableton

[This is a lightly edited repeat of an article we published in 2018 and republished last fall. Since our web traffic has increased substantially in the intervening years I thought…

History January 16, 2026

How Veterans Memorial Highway got its start

[This article is part of an ongoing project of resurrecting evergreen articles from the Cobb County Courier’s stacks, and expanding them with newly discovered information] By Larry Felton Johnson A…

Davis Chapel Cemetery (photo by Larry Felton Johnson)

Cemeteries, Community December 7, 2025

Davis Chapel Cemetery on Veterans Memorial Highway in Mableton

[The Cobb County Courier is republishing some of our evergreen articles we published at a time when our readership was much lower than our current traffic. This article was originally…

A contractor holding blueprints, a stack of residential blueprints, and a representation of a site map

Land Use & Zoning September 26, 2025

Zoning request for motel in Mableton withdrawn

The applicant for the rezoning request for a motel on Veterans Memorial Highway withdrew the request during a hearing at Wednesday’s Mableton City Council meeting due to community opposition. The…

Mableton May 26, 2025

Joe South and his grave site on Veterans Memorial Highway in Mableton

[This is a lightly edited repeat of an article we published in 2018 and republished last fall. Since our web traffic has increased substantially in the intervening years I thought…

History May 26, 2025

How Veterans Memorial Highway got its start

Mableton May 26, 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…

Headstones at Mount Harmony Baptist Church cemetery in Mableton Georgia.

Mableton April 30, 2025

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….

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Pets and Pet Adoption August 14, 2026