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National Park Service – National Battlefield Park Georgia

Kennesaw Battlefield Park preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign, and also contains Kennesaw Mountain. It is located at 905 Kennesaw Mountain Drive, between Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia. The name “Kennesaw” derives from the Cherokee Indian “Gah-nee-sah” meaning “cemetery” or burial ground.

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morada 900 Kennesaw Mountain Dr Kennesaw, GA 30152

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Cheatham Hill

To protect the hill, now named for Confederate General Benjamin F. Cheatham, the Southerners created a protruding angle in their lines. The fiercest fighting of the battle raged here at what came to be called the “Dead Angle” and a temporary truce was...

Kolb’s Farm

Damaged by gunfire, Peter Valentine Kolb’s 1836 log house has been restored to its historic appearance (the house is not open to the public). On the afternoon of June 22, 1864, General Hood’s Confederates were repulsed in an ill-fated attack just north of...