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GNIS feature ID. 0316387 [ 3] Website. www .kennesaw-ga .gov. Kennesaw is a suburban city northwest of Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, located within the greater Atlanta metropolitan area. Known from its original settlement in the 1830s until 1887 as Big Shanty, it became Kennesaw under its 1887 charter.
Kennesaw Mountain is a mountain between Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia in the United States with a summit elevation of 1,808 feet (551 m). It is the highest point in the core ( urban and suburban) metro Atlanta area, and fifth after further-north exurban counties are considered. [citation needed] The local terrain averages roughly 1,000 feet ...
The Battle of Kennesaw Mountain was fought on June 27, 1864, during the Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War.The most significant frontal assault launched by Union Major General William T. Sherman against the Confederate Army of Tennessee under General Joseph E. Johnston, it produced a tactical defeat for the Union forces but failed to deliver the result that the Confederacy desperately ...
Kennesaw Mountain Battlefield Park is a 2,923-acre (11.8 km 2) National Battlefield that preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign. There are three battlefield areas: In front of the Visitor Center, off Burnt Hickory Road and a major site at Cheatham Hill (commonly known as the Dead Angle).
Kennesaw State University CDP is a census-designated place (CDP) and the official name for an area covering the Kennesaw State University campus in Cobb County, Georgia. It does not include the Kennesaw State University campus in Marietta. It first appeared as a CDP in the 2020 Census [ 61] with a population of 382.
Blue Ridge Parkway Blue Ridge Parkway route map Route information Maintained by National Park Service Length 469 mi (755 km) Existed June 30, 1936 (1936-06-30) –present Tourist routes Blue Ridge Parkway Restrictions No commercial vehicles Major junctions North end US 250 / Skyline Drive in Rockfish Gap, VA Major intersections US 60 in Humphreys Gap, VA US 220 in Roanoke, VA US 58 in Meadows ...
Interstate 575 ( I-575) is an auxiliary Interstate Highway in the United States, which branches off I-75 in Kennesaw and connects the Atlanta metropolitan area with the North Georgia mountains, extending 30.97 miles (49.84 km). I-575 is also the unsigned State Route 417 ( SR 417) and is cosigned as SR 5.
Ernest W. Barrett Parkway (more commonly Barrett Parkway) is a major thoroughfare in the northwestern part of the Atlanta metropolitan area, in the north-central part of Cobb County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It travels from the southeastern edge of Kennesaw to a point north of Marietta, and continues on in both directions under other names ...