Kennesaw

Kennesaw is a town in Cobb County, Georgia, United States, positioned within the more Atlanta metropolitan location. It had a populace of 29,783 according to the 2010 census. Founded in 1887, Kennesaw has a beyond surrounded with railroad records. During the Civil War, Kennesaw turned into the staging floor for the Great Locomotive Chase on April 12, 1862. The metropolis is possibly high-quality regarded nationally for its mandatory gun-possession ordinance.

As the Western and Atlantic Railroad were being constructed within the late 1830s, shanties arose to residence the workers. These had been near a massive spring. A grade up from the Etowah River became referred to as "the huge grade to the shanties", then "Big Shanty Grade", and eventually "Big Shanty". The name "Kennesaw" is derived from the Cherokee word gah-nee-sah, which means cemetery or burial ground.

Camp MacDonald, a schooling camp, turned into located there from 1861 to 1863. During the Civil War, Big Shanty changed into the website of important combating in the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, a part of the larger Atlanta Campaign. Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, placed southeast of the city limits, now consists of a lot of those historical regions, although much of the encircling land has been developed, and some buried artifacts had been taken by means of humans with metal detectors.