In 1990, Republican Congressmen Newt Gingrich became Representative of a new district centered around Cobb County. Glover Park Bell, on the square in Marietta I-75 through the county is now named for him. In 1983, McDonald died aboard Korean Air Lines Flight 007, shot down by a Soviet fighter jet over restricted airspace. A conservative Democrat, McDonald called for investigations into alleged plots by the Rockefellers and the Soviet Union to impose "socialist-one-world-government" and co-founded the Western Goals Foundation. In 1975, Cobb voters elected John Birch Society leader Larry McDonald to Congress, running in opposition to desegregation busing. Cobb County was the home of former segregationist and Georgia governor Lester Maddox (1966–71). Real-estate booms drew rural white southerners and Rust Belt transplants, both groups mostly first-generation white-collar workers. In the 1960s and 1970s, Cobb transformed from rural to suburban, as integration spurred white flight from the city of Atlanta, which by 1970 was majority-African-American. The county courthouse, built in 1888, was demolished, spurring a law that now prevents counties from doing so without a referendum. Barrett became the first chairman of the new county commission. When county home rule was enacted statewide by amendment to the Georgia state constitution in the early 1960s, Ernest W. In 1915, Leo Frank, the Jewish supervisor of an Atlanta pencil factory who was convicted of murdering one of his workers, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, was kidnapped from his jail cell and brought to Frey's Gin, two miles (3.2 km) east of Marietta, where he was lynched. Despite the victory, Union forces outflanked the Confederates. The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain on June 27, 1864, was the site of the only major Confederate victory in General William T. Union forces burnt most houses and confiscated or burnt crops. The Battle of Allatoona Pass on October 5, 1864, occurred as Sherman was starting his march through Georgia.
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These were followed by the prolonged series of battles through most of June 1864 until very early July: the Battle of Marietta and the Battle of Noonday Creek. There were battles of New Hope Church May 25, 1864, Pickett's Mill May 27, and Dallas May 28. Īn 1891 lithograph of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain by Kurz & Allisonĭuring the American Civil War, some Confederate troops were trained at a camp in Big Shanty (now Kennesaw), where the Andrews Raid occurred, starting the Great Locomotive Chase. A train began running between Marietta and Marthasville (modern day Atlanta) in 1845. The state started acquiring right-of-way for the Western & Atlantic Railroad in 1836.
It is believed that the county seat of Marietta was named for Judge Cobb's wife, Mary. Senator, state representative, and superior court judge. It was the 81st county in Georgia and named for Judge Thomas Willis Cobb, who served as a U.S. History Ĭobb County was one of nine Georgia counties carved out of the disputed territory of the Cherokee Nation in 1832. In October 2017, Cobb was ranked as the "Least Obese County in Georgia". It has ranked among the top 100 highest-income counties in the United States. Census Bureau ranked Cobb County as the most educated in the state of Georgia and 12th-most in the United States. Major League Baseball's Atlanta Braves have played home games at Truist Park in Cumberland since 2017. Its Cumberland District, an edge city, has over 24 million square feet (2,200,000 m 2) of office space. Cobb County is included in the Atlanta metropolitan area and is situated immediately to the northwest of Atlanta's city limits. It is believed that Marietta was named for his wife, Mary. The county was named for Thomas Willis Cobb, a U.S. Its county seat is Marietta and its largest city is Mableton.Īlong with several adjoining counties, Cobb County was established on December 3, 1832, by the Georgia General Assembly from the large Cherokee County territory-land northwest of the Chattahoochee River which the state acquired from the Cherokee Nation and redistributed to settlers via lottery, following the passage of the federal Indian Removal Act. As of 2020 Census, the population was 766,149. state of Georgia, located in the Atlanta metropolitan area in the north central portion of the state.
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