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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.
Summit of Stone Mountain, Kennesaw Mountain (center) and Atlanta (left) in background. The top of the mountain is a landscape of bare rock and rock pools, and it provides views of the surrounding area including the skyline of downtown Atlanta, often Kennesaw Mountain, and on very clear days even the Appalachian Mountains. On some days, the top ...
Kennesaw Battlefield Park preserves a Civil War battleground of the Atlanta Campaign, and also contains Kennesaw Mountain. It is located at 900 Kennesaw Mountain Drive, between Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia. The name "Kennesaw" derives from the Cherokee Indian "Gah-nee-sah" meaning "cemetery" or burial ground. [4]
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.
The 11 highest summits of Georgia with at least 100 feet of topographic prominence; Rank Summit County Elevation Prominence Isolation Location; 1 Brasstown Bald [1]: Towns/Union: 4,784 ft
The Stone Mountain Park officially opened on April 14, 1965 – 100 years to the day after Lincoln's assassination. [10] Site of the rebirth of the Ku Klux Klan (the Second Clan), on the top of the mountain, with cross burning, in 1915. Stone Mountain was the location of an annual Labor Day cross-burning ceremony for the next 50 years. [11]
The fact that Stone Mountain and Kennesaw Mountain are both protected as parks has led to a proliferation of technology at the top. At the same time, both the antenna farm and the densely packed houses detract from the view of the mountain from surrounding areas of north east Cobb , south-southeast Cherokee (including much of Woodstock ), and ...
Kennestone Hospital opened in June 1950 as a 105-bed-facility. It was named after the land which it was built upon, where both Kennesaw Mountain and Stone Mountain were visible. In 1959, the hospital's capacity increased to 300 beds with the opening of the south wing.