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Cobb County, Georgia
| December 21, 1830 |
The Sixth Georgia Land Lottery, sometimes called the Cherokee Georgia lottery, is authorized by the General Assembly. The major difference between this lottery and the preceding five lotteries is that Georgia did not have a claim to the land it was giving away: The Cherokee had never ceded it.
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Land Lotteries |
| December 24, 1831 |
Georgia Gold Lottery enacted. This lottery, whose enabling act and drawing dates were different than the Sixth Georgia Land Lottery is, for some reason, frequently combined with the earlier lottery. It is, in fact, totally separate
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Land Lotteries |
| December 26, 1831 |
The original Cherokee County created
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Lumpkin County, Georgia |
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Gilmer County, Georgia |
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Floyd County, Georgia |
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Forsyth County, Georgia |
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Bartow County, Georgia |
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Cass County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Cherokee County, Georgia |
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Original Cherokee County |
| November 24, 1832 |
Start of the sixth land lottery. Georgia did not own the land it was giving to settlers
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Land Lotteries |
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Original Cherokee County |
| December 3, 1832 |
Cobb County created
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Creation of Georgia Counties
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Original Cherokee County |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| November 26, 1836 |
After this date settlers were allow to "disturb Indian occupants" on land they won in the sixth Georgia land lottery and the gold lottery. Georgia never legally took possession of the land.
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| December 23, 1854 |
City of Roswell, Cobb County, incorporated. It is now part of Fulton County
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| August 17, 1915 |
A lynch mob hangs Leo Frank, near the present-day site of the Big Chicken
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Leo Frank and the murder of Mary Phagan |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Marietta, GA |
| May 9, 1932 |
Portions of Cherokee, Gwinnett and Cobb Counties, along with all of Campbell County and Milton County are ceded to Fulton County.
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Campbell County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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Gwinnett County, Georgia |
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Cherokee County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| June 15, 1943 |
Marietta Army Airfield (AKA Cobb County Airport) is designated by General Order
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Marietta, GA |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| May 2, 1982 |
The Weather Channel begins broadcasting from a building in Cobb County
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| March 29, 1991 |
Douglas and Cobb County were hit by F3 tornadoes as part of a much larger system. More than 50 million dollars damage was done, with 27 people injured
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Douglas County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| November 22, 1992 |
Storms, including at least two F4 tornadoes, account for more than 50 million dollars in property damage, 153 injured and 6 dead. Hardest hit were Cobb and Putnam Counties
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Putnam County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| March 3, 1995 |
Glenn Turner, a Cobb County police officer, dies after exhibiting "flu-like" symptoms for several days. |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| June 22, 2001 |
Cobb County police link the deaths of Randy Thomson and Glenn Turner. They begin a homicide investigation. |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| June 27, 2002 |
Cobb County changes Glenn Turner's cause of death from irregular heartbeat to antifreeze poisoning. |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| November 1, 2002 |
Georgia's "Black Widow," Lynn Turner, is indicted on charges she killed her husband Glenn, a Cobb County police officer, in 1995
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Lynn Turner |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| April 25, 2003 |
Supercell thunderstorms rake Polk, Paulding, Cobb, North Fulton and Dekalb County in north Georgia as well as Stewart, Marion, Webster, Sumter, and Dooly County in the south during the late afternoon and evening hours. Dade County also suffered some damage.
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Webster County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
| May 6, 2003 |
Strong storms move through north Georgia. Among the counties hardest hit are Floyd, Walker, Catoosa, Gordon, Bartow, Cherokee, Cobb, Fulton, Gwinnett, Dekalb, Clarke, Barrow and Elbert County.
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Gwinnett County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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Bartow County, Georgia |
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Catoosa County, Georgia |
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Catoosa County, Georgia |
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Gordon County, Georgia |
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Walker County, Georgia |
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Floyd County, Georgia |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Cherokee County, Georgia |
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Clarke County, Georgia |
| February 2, 2004 |
Jury selection in the Lynn Turner trial begins in Marietta. |
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Marietta, GA |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
| February 4, 2004 |
After 2 days of trying to seat an impartial jury in the Lynn Turner case, Cobb County Superior Court Judge Jim Bodiford orders a change of venue. |
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Houston County, Georgia |
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Lynn Turner |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| May 13, 2005 |
Department of Defense recommends 5 bases from Georgia be closed |
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Georgia Base Closings-2005 |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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Clarke County, Georgia |
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Floyd County, Georgia |
| May 24, 2005 |
Federal appeals court rules that Cobb County must remove stickers it added to books stating "Evolution is theory" |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
| March 14, 2008 |
A strong tornado strikes the Georgia World Congress Center, Phillips Arena, The Equitable Building, and the Fulton Bag and Cotton Mill (now upscale condos). Nearby, the Georgia Dome suffers damage while the Southeastern Conference men's basketball tournament is being held inside. Numerous minor injuries and one life-threatening injury are reported. |
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The Georgia Dome |
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2008 Georgia Bulldogs Basketball |
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2008 Georgia tornado outbreak |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
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Fulton County, Georgia |
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DeKalb County, Georgia |
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Georgia World Congress Center
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Georgia Tornadoes |
| July 6, 2008 |
General Electric/Universal, owner of NBC and other media properties announces an agreement with Landmark Communications to purchase Cobb County-based cable property The Weather Channel |
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Cobb County, Georgia |
Name derivation:Named in honor of T. R. R. (Thomas Reade Roote) Cobb , best known for his role writing the Confederate Constitution and his service to the Confederacy as a general, both of which came significantly after the founding of the county. At the time the county was formed he was an erudite supporter of both states rights and the removal of the Cherokee. The county seat, Marietta, is named in honor of his wife Acquisition: Treaty of New Echota Taken from:Original county Counties created from:MiltonCities: Marietta (county seat), Kennesaw, Acworth, Powder Springs, Austell Web sites:National Register of Historic Places in Cobb County, GeorgiaCobb County, Georgia, linksMarietta Welcome Center History and description One of the counties formed from the Cherokee Nation, taken illegally by the state of Georgia prior to the Cherokee Trail of Tears and distributed in the Sixth Georgia Land Lottery and the Gold Lottery.
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