Today, my newest article was posted by the online journal Atlanta Studies. It looks at Cobb County’s attempts in the 1950s and ‘60s to build a professional baseball stadium in roughly the same area where Truist Park would open in 2017. Using this story, I explore civic boosterism, white flight, and the rise of Atlanta’sContinue reading “New Article: The Cobb County Stadium”
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Cobb County, 1832
The Cherokee lived in North Georgia until the 1830s, when they were forcibly removed in what came to be known as the Trail of Tears.[1] In 1832, the State of Georgia surveyed the Cherokee lands to prepare for a lottery, where settlers would be given randomly selected plots of land across North Georgia. The regionContinue reading “Cobb County, 1832”
Andrew J. Bramlett 