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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BUJ_kolb-house_Marietta-GA.html
This hewn log house, built about 1836 by a pioneer settler, Peter Valentine Kolb, is the only surviving structure of about a dozen farms, mills and churches existing within the park at the time of the Civil War. The house sustained light damage du…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BU4_field-fortifications_Marietta-GA.html
Confederate engineers and work crews started digging earthworks around Kennesaw Mountain a few days before their army fell back to this position on June 19. For the next week Southern soldiers improved their earthwork defenses despite constant rai…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BU3_camouflaged-cannons_Marietta-GA.html
Tennessee cannoneers positioned two 12-pounder howitzers within this redoubt. Maj. Gen. Benjamin F. Cheatham ordered these artillery crews to camouflage the earthen mounds with cut underbrush and to hold their fire unless attacked. For the next we…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BTX_a-humanitarian-act_Marietta-GA.html
After each Union assault on June 27, hundreds of casualties were left between the lines. By afternoon, wounded Union soldiers lying helpless near here faced a new danger; flames, started by the battle's gunfire, crept steadily toward them.
Lt. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BTN_interlocking-defenses_Marietta-GA.html
This artillery redoubt protected part of Maj. Gen. Patrick R. Cleburne's Confederate division. From here Southern trenches zigzagged to the left and right for miles, with cannon batteries placed at key positions. These defense lines could produce …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1AD3_cherokee-treaty_Marietta-GA.html
In 1808-1809, the Cherokee nation divided when some of its members decided to move west of the Mississippi River to pursue a hunter lifestyle where game was plentiful rather than live the more settled lifestyle prevalent in the east. A portion of …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15FO_address-by-president-lincoln_Marietta-GA.html
Address by President LincolnAt the Dedication of The Gettysburg National CemeteryNovember 19, 1863.
Four score and seven years ago our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in liberty, and dedicated to the proposition…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM155O_clarke-library-building_Marietta-GA.html
Sara Freeman Clarke established the first public library in Marietta and Cobb County in 1882 when she allowed residents to borrow books from her home without charge. She named it the "Franklin Lending Library".
The next year, a group of citizen…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM155M_lemon-st-grammar-and-high-school_Marietta-GA.html
The Lemon Street Grammar School opened in 1894. The original wooden structure was funded by Marietta's school board, and designed to educate Negro students. The high school was built nearby in 1930 at urging of Ursula Jenkins. Professor M. J. Wood…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1236_this-little-cannon_Marietta-GA.html
This little cannon served at the Georgia Military Institute from 1852 to 1864, then went into the Confederate Army, was captured on Sherman's March to the Sea, 1864-1865, and held as a trophy of war until 1910, when it was returned by the United S…