Category Archives: Historic Landmarks

Strand Update : Divided we Strand?

May 19, 2006 – 3:45 pm

As we have been reporting to you earlier this year, the Strand renovation is moving along nicely. According to the AJC, there are quite some mixed opionion on the progress that is being made with the renovation/restoration. Published on: 05/18/06 The Strand Theater on the Marietta Square plans to host a grand reopening next summer. [...]

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Glover Park renovation donors honored for 20th anniversary

May 19, 2006 – 7:21 am

Community leaders and the city honored donors and friends of Glover Park’s renovation during a 20th anniversary celebration this week on the Square. In 1852 Marietta Mayor John Heyward Glover presented the city with land for its first park in the center of the town’s square. In the mid 1980s, prominent Cobb County developer John [...]

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Strand Theater Renovation Project: Update

May 9, 2006 – 10:17 pm

The Cobb Commission voted Tuesday to approve a $250,000 grant toward the Square’s Strand Theater renovation fund. However, the money won’t be given until the “Friends of the Strand” has raised $2 million (of a $5 million goal) . Friends president, Earl Smith, has suggested that tax revenue could be contributed to the fund, which [...]

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Marietta Square’s Strand Theatre Renovation Progress

May 6, 2006 – 8:55 am
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Weekend in Review: Spring Is Officially Here

May 4, 2006 – 9:40 am

Since ancient times, spring has long been celebrated as a season of new life. And though the calendar marks the beginning of spring in late March, it never seems to officially begin until the Square and the city of Marietta are brought back to life. On a social calendar, this was the weekend that spring [...]

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The Square: Past and Present – Share your memories with us!

April 15, 2006 – 8:10 pm

The Marietta Square has gone through quite a rebirth in the past few years. Restaurants such as Willie Rae’s and the Marietta Pizza Company are staples on the dining map, while newcomers such as Thaicoon and Kiosco already welcome back loyal patrons. With the campaign to bring back The Strand theater in full swing, you [...]

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Spotlight on Marietta High School

April 13, 2006 – 8:10 am
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“Save Whitlock Heights” : From What?

April 5, 2006 – 11:19 pm

Neighbors have listed some reasons why they believe the lot should not be sold. Whitlock Heights has been an established Marietta community for some time now, located right off the Square and Whitlock Avenue. Many of the longtime residents appear threatened by their neighbor?s choice to split the lot and some of the yard signs? [...]

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Marietta’s newest development on Whitlock Avenue – the Walnut Grove community of homes

March 25, 2006 – 9:53 am

We spoke this morning with Mark Kirk, one of the developers of the new Walnut Grove community of homes. This development is currently underway, with ground being prepared for 18 new homes that will sit on the corner of Whitlock Avenue and Whitlock Drive. Mark, along with his brother, grew up with their family just [...]

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Support the Marietta Museum of History!

March 20, 2006 – 11:19 pm

A recent article in the MDJ regarding low attendance at our local Museum of History is cause for concern. This is a wonderful place, with much work put into the display of the collection of historical artifacts. The heart of this museum, Dan Cox, has poured his passion for local history into every inch, and [...]

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