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Map of Georgia with Cobb County highlighted. ... Kennesaw: 11: J. H. Carmichael Farm and General Store: June 30, 1980 : SE of Smyrna at 501 Log Cabin Rd. Smyrna: 12 ...
Kennesaw is a suburban city northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area. Known from its original settlement in the 1830s until 1887 as Big Shanty , it became Kennesaw under its 1887 charter.
The defensive-minded Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston constructed a series of trenches from Kennesaw Mountain to Kolb Farm to prevent or delay Union general William T. Sherman's approach towards Atlanta, Georgia. For the purpose of defending the Confederate line, the Confederates constructed Fort McBride here, but Little Kennesaw Mountain ...
The house was built for entrepreneur John Heyward Glover, who had built and sold the Greek Revival-style Glover-McLeod-Garrison House (1847-51), also in Marietta, Georgia. That other house was built and/or designed by Willis Ball. [4] McLellan-Birney House, (c. 1870); Church Street at Kennesaw Avenue (photo #11) neo-classical.
Peachtree Creek suffered massive flooding after Hurricane Frances and Hurricane Ivan in September 2004. Late on September 16, 2004, it reached a stage of 22.63 feet (6.90 m), a flow of 14,200 cubic feet (106,223 gallons) or 402 cubic meters (402,100 liters) per second, and a width of 450 feet (140 m), its highest official flood record ever ...
The portion of Barrett Parkway between Interstate 575 (I-575/SR 5) and US 41/SR 3 (Cobb Parkway) is designated State Route 5 Connector. The road is named after Ernest W. Barrett , the first chairman of the Cobb County Board of Commissioners in the 1960s, after home rule was enacted under a Georgia State Constitution amendment .
Sweat Mountain is a mountain in far northeastern Cobb County, Georgia, in the suburbs north of Atlanta. The exact GNIS location of its summit is 34°4′1″N 84°27′20″W / 34.06694°N 84.45556°W / 34.06694; -84.45556 , and it has an official ( USGS ) elevation of 1,688 ft (515 m) above mean sea
) around Perry, Georgia is the northern half of an unfinished loop around the city. It also travels concurrently with SR 11 from US 341 to US 41 and SR 11 Conn. west of US 41. In March 2018, the Georgia Department of Transportation petitioned AASHTO to eliminate US 341 Byp. in favor of re-routing mainline US 341 onto the bypass route. [7]