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    Marietta Revisited
    Marietta Revisited
    Marietta Revisited
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    Marietta Revisited

    By Joe Kirby and Damien A. Guarnieri

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    Marietta is one of the largest and most historic cities in northwest Georgia.


    As one of Atlanta's largest suburbs, Marietta is the home and workplace for thousands of Georgians, and has been a homestead since 1834. A series of unfortunate fires in the 1850s partially destroyed the city, and caught fire once again in 1864 as part of Sherman's March to the Sea. Some of Marietta's history has been preserved, but much of it has been lost to the ravages of war, time, and gentrification. Then and Now: Marietta Revisited takes the reader down Marietta's streets through time, back into what is almost a different world than the modern small city we know today.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherArcadia Publishing
    Release dateNov 9, 2009
    ISBN9781439637692
    Marietta Revisited
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    Joe Kirby

    Joe Kirby is an Evangelist who is involved in open air outreach and producing Gospel videos for his YouTube Channel Off the Kirb Ministries. He is married to Emma, and they have a little boy, Samuel. They live in Lancashire, England.  

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      Marietta Revisited - Joe Kirby

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      INTRODUCTION

      We shape our buildings, and afterwards, our buildings shape us.

      —Winston Churchill

      Marietta, Georgia, has shaped its share of memorable buildings in its 175 years. These buildings, in turn, have helped shape those who have lived and worked here. And some of those buildings—or their memories—continue to shape Marietta even decades after their demolition.

      Most cities have their ups and downs, and Marietta has been no exception. It has survived fire, war, depression, and in recent decades, the losses of many of its most notable buildings. Yet it continues to thrive, even in the midst of the worst economic downturn in seven decades as this book was written.

      Marietta’s downtown suffered three devastating fires in a single decade—the 1850s. It only got worse in the 1860s. As a result of the Civil War, many of the city’s buildings were used as hospitals, nearby hillsides were scarred by two vast military cemeteries, and thanks to Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman’s troops, most of downtown, including the courthouse, was left in smoldering ruins.

      Marietta and Cobb County were so downtrodden following the war that it was not until seven years later that they could afford to build another courthouse. The city remained under such great economic duress that entire blocks facing the square sat covered with charred rubble into the 1890s, much like entire blocks of London, Berlin, and other European cities remained vacant for decades after the devastation of World War II.

      Then, after eking through the Depression years, the arrival of the Bell Aircraft plant during World War II brought previously unimaginable opportunities and wealth to Marietta and seemingly solidified downtown’s status as the commercial hub of the county. But it was not to be.

      The advent of shopping malls and Interstate 75 siphoned shoppers and retailers away, and what followed was a three-decade descent for downtown. As shoppers headed elsewhere, Glover Park in Marietta Square became most notable, not for its fountain, but for the sizeable numbers of homeless and day laborers who congregated there each morning, courtesy of a nearby shelter and a day-labor pickup point. Few people traveled to downtown Marietta except those who needed to be there. With only a handful of restaurant and nightlife options near the square, at times downtown resembled a ghost town.

      The election of lawyer Bob Flournoy Jr. as mayor in 1981 was the turning point for the square and downtown’s fortunes. Flournoy, working closely with powerful state representative Joe Mack Wilson, launched a campaign to revitalize the square, exclaiming that he planned to restore it to the grandeur that it never had! He kept his word, spearheading an effort that generated $1 million in contributions and gave the redesigned and renovated Glover Park just what it needed to help regain its status as the focal point of the city. Among the donors to that campaign were Academy Award–winning actors Paul Newman and wife Joanne Woodward, a Marietta

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