Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Cobb County, Georgia. Official Website Cobb county was one of nine Georgia counties carved out of the disputed territory of the Cherokee Nation in 1832. It was the 81st county in Georgia and named for Judge Thomas Willis Cobb, who served as a U.S. Senator, state representative, and superior court judge. It is believed that the count...
The City Cemetery is located at: Marietta City Cemetery 420 West Atlanta Road Marietta, GA 30064 It is in Land Lot 1290, District 16. It was established in the 1830s and provides the final resting place for a broad cross section of the community's early residents, notably without the barriers between different races, religions and backgrounds common to Georgia at that time. Marietta Marietta...
The cemetery is located on 410 Whitlock Avenue NW, Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia. Official Website Find a Grave Billion Graves
Wikipedia =Marietta National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the city of Marietta in Cobb County, Georgia. Find a Grave
The Battle of Marietta was a series of military operations from June 9 through July 3, 1864, in Cobb County, Georgia, between Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The Union forces, led by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman, encountered the Confederate Army of Tennessee, led by Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, entrenched near Marietta, Georgia. Several engagements were fought dur...
The Battle of Pine Mountain (also known as the Battle of Pine Knob and the Battle of Pine Hill) was a relatively minor engagement on June 14 - 15, 1864 during the Atlanta Campaign that resulted in the death of Confederate Lieutenant General Leonidas Polk. By June 9, 1864, Johnston had withdrawn the Army of Tennessee to an entrenched position in the Marietta area, in Cobb County, Georgia. Ov...
This beautiful, well-maintained, cemetery has rolling hills, dogwood and oak trees, blooming azaleas and a lake. It is located on 1306 Whitlock Avenue SW, Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia. Billion Graves Find a Grave
The Battle of Gilgal Church (June 15, 1864) was an action during the Atlanta Campaign in the American Civil War. The Union army of William Tecumseh Sherman and the Confederate army led by Joseph E. Johnston fought a series of battles between June 10 and 19 along a front stretching northeast from Lost Mountain to Pine Mountain to Brushy Mountain. At Gilgal Church, attacks by the divisions of Joh...
Wikipedia =Kennesaw State University (KSU) is a public, coeducational, comprehensive university located in Kennesaw, Georgia, United States, approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of Atlanta. KSU also holds classes at the Cobb Galleria Centre, Dalton State College, Appalachian Technical College and Dallas. Current enrollment is over 32,000 students.KSU is part of the University System of Geor...
Powder Springs City Cemetery first established in 1917 as part of the Methodist Cemetery. Today, known as the Powder Springs City Cemetery can be found about a mile southeast of the historical downtown on the west side of Old Austell Road, one of four cemeteries located in the area. Powder Springs Methodist and Church of God of Prophecy on the east side of Old Austell Road and Powder Springs Me...
The Battle of Noonday Creek was a series of combat events in the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War that took place between June 10 and July 3 of 1864. Brig. Gen. Kenner Garrard was ordered by Maj. Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman to interpose between Maj. Gen. Joseph Wheeler 's Confederate cavalry and detached infantry at Noonday Creek, which was just a few miles from Sherman's headquar...
The cemetery is located on 2000 Cobb Parkway SE, in Marietta, Cobb County, Georgia. Find a Grave
Wikipedia Southern Polytechnic State University (also called Southern Poly; abbreviated SPSU) was a public, co-educational, state university in Marietta, Georgia, United States approximately 20 miles (32 km) northwest of downtown Atlanta. Until 2015, it was an independent part of the University System of Georgia and called itself "Georgia's Technology University." Southern Tech was established...
Wikipedia =Great Locomotive Chase=The Great Locomotive Chase or Andrews' Raid was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American Civil War. Volunteers from the Union Army, led by civilian scout James J. Andrews, commandeered a train and took it northward toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, doing as much damage as possible to the vital Western and Atlantic Railr...