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1954 Map of Marietta

Name: 1954 Topographic Map of Marietta
Creator: U.S. Geological Survey
Published: 1970
License: https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/

USGS Topo · Published 1970

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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park dominates the western portion of this 1954 Georgia study, preserving the terrain of Kennesaw Mountain, Little Kennesaw Mountain, and Cheatham Hill. The city of Marietta serves as the central hub, with its street grid radiating from the Courthouse and City Hall. Significant 1968 urban expansion, indicated by purple tint, reveals the rapid growth of residential areas and the footprint of Dobbins Air Force Base in the southeast.

Logistics and transport are defined by the Louisville and Nashville railroad and major thoroughfares like Powder Springs Road and Austell Road. Genealogists will find numerous small burial grounds and religious sites, including St James Cem, the Confederate Cemetery, and Mt Calvary Ch. From the industrial Sewage Disposal plant to the social center of the Country Club, the map captures a pivotal era of suburbanization in Cobb County.