Marietta Museum of History

We are back LIVE at Lemon Street School! There will be a test at the end

We are back LIVE today at 2pm for History Loves Company. May is Historic Preservation Month, which means we will be exploring the efforts that have been made in Cobb County. Today we will be at the Lemon Street School discussing the history and the historic preservation efforts that are happening.

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Excited to share Marietta’s history with the Marietta Civitan Club today! #mariettaga #mariettahistory #mariettamuseum #localhistorymatters #localhistory #speakingengagement

For today's #MarkerMonday, we are exploring one of Cobb County's first historians, Sarah Gober Temple. The youngest child of Judge George Fletcher Gober and Alice Blackwell, Sarah or Sadie followed in her siblings footsteps by attending school in Marietta. She continued in her older sister, Eileen's footsteps and went to Agnes Scott College. Sarah was interested in literature and active in sports including field hockey and baseball. She served as co-editor in chief for th...e school's annual. After graduating, Sarah began her career in social work, where she met her future husband, Mark Temple. The couple were married in Sarah's family home in 1927 and the young couple set up their home on Vance Circle. As history tells it "at the suggestion of the Cobb County Grand Jury of March 1930, Guy H. Northcutt nominated Mrs. Temple to write Cobb County's history. No person could have been better suited, for the Gobers were pioneer citizens of Cobb County. Sadie's father, Judge Gober, was an outstanding lawyer, teacher and citizen who, like is his wife, instilled an inquiring mind and a passion for accuracy in his daughter." MDJ Nov. 9, 1969. "Sadie traveled the county, visiting cemeteries and homes in search of the complete story. Often a friend accompanied her...her Skye Terrier, Wicklow." The First Hundred Years, A Short History of Cobb County, was published in 1935, the product of 5 years work. The book met with praise and glowing reviews and Margaret Mitchell referred to it as the "Red Whale" with over 500 pages of narrative and 300 more of notes and records. #mariettaga #mariettahistory #visitmariettaga #mariettamuseum See more

The Museum wishes everyone a happy and safe New Year! We will be closed Friday in observance and reopen on Saturday for normal business hours. #mariettaga #mariettamuseum #mariettahistory #newyearseve #newyear2021

Born in Marietta in 1859, Benjamin Franklin Cooper was the fifth child and first son of William Lee Cooper and Louisa Cooper, nee Moseley. At the age of 8, his mother Louisa passed away. B. F.'s father remarried and B. F. along with his siblings and half-siblings were raised in Marietta. Frank, as he went by had moved to Orlando, FL in his early 20s. At the time of his death, he had been traveling around Chicago and St. Louis, where he contracted a cold "which he failed ...to get rid of. Enroute home he stopped in Marietta and he grew rapidly worse." His official cause of death was "congestion of the brain". He never married and was buried at the Marietta City Cemetery, along side of his parents and a sister, who predeceased him. * * #mariettamuseum #mariettamuseum #mariettaga #mariettacitycemetery #markermonday #gravestone #tombstone See more

Good afternoon from the Marietta Square! We are at the corner of Powder Springs Street and Whitlock Avenue. We are discussing the building and Atherton’s explosion on Halloween night 1963.

Join us today at 2pm for our next edition of History Loves Company. We will be discussing the building that is now Marietta Pizza Company, but on Halloween night 1963, it was the location of gas explosion of Atherton Drug Store. #mariettahistory #mariettaga #mariettamuseum #historylovescompany

Well, this is definitely a difference! The 1st picture is about 1970 and the 2nd is today. #mariettahistory #mariettamuseum #mariettaga #tbt

Just a reminder that the Museum will be closing early today (10.28.20) at 2pm for a private tour. We will reopen for normal business hours tomorrow. #mariettaga #mariettamuseum #mariettahistory #mariettasquare

We love this! Pumpkin carving and Tacky Party! #RecreationRewind #MyMariettaGa #pumpkins #pumpkincarving #tackyparty #seniorcitizens #mariettamuseum #mariettahistory

Our previous edition of History Loves Company focused on the Art and Artists buried at St. James Episcopal Cemetery. One person that we didn't talk about was Julia Anderson McNeely. It is hard to tell from the first picture but you can see it in the second, the artist's palette on her gravestone. Julia Anderson was born on April 9, 1896, daughter of James T. Anderson and Jessie Lee Montgomery. She grew up in the family home that is still around today at the corner of Wrigh...t Street and Whitlock Avenue. Both Julia and her younger sister Emma were inspired by women like their mother, Jessie and neighbor, Miss Susan (Susy) Buttolph, a noted sculptor. Julia attended Agnes Scott and after graduation, went to NYC to study commercial art at the NY School of Fine and Applied Arts (now known as Parsons). She married Col. Oscar D. McNeely and applied her artistic talents to creating toys for her children. Julia traveled the world to experiment with various artistic techniques and always brought back to Marietta, her knowledge. She became the first President of the Marietta Council of Garden Clubs and continued to fight for the conservation and beautification of Marietta and the country. She passed away on Feb. 27, 1987. #mariettahistory #mariettamuseum #gravestone #artandartists #stjamescemetery

This week the Museum will close earlier on Wednesday, October 28th at 2pm for a private tour. We will be open for normal business (10am to 4pm) hours the rest of the week, starting on Tuesday. #mariettamuseum #mariettahistory #mariettaga

FYI, the Museum will be closing at 2pm on Wednesday, October 28th for a private tour. We will reopen for normal business hours on Thursday, October 29th at 10am.

Exploring St. James Episcopal Cemetery on today’s History Loves Company!

Join us today for another edition of History Loves Company @ 2pm! We will be exploring the Art and Artists at St. James Episcopal Cemetery. Sure to be a hauntingly good time #mariettahistory #mariettamuseum #historylovescompany #cemetery #artandartists

So these may look like just drain pipes but they are a part of Marietta's history. These were salvaged from the Kennesaw House building renovations in 1979. The drains were made by F. E. A. Schilling's Hardware and were probably installed in the building in the early 1920s. #mariettahistory #fromthecollection #plumbing #salvage #mariettamuseum #tbt