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Marietta, GA
Marietta's historic town square, Glover Park, has anchored the city's downtown since before the Civil War, and much of the surrounding commercial and residential architecture survived the broader destruction of the Atlanta campaign in 1864, giving Marietta one of the better-preserved concentrations of antebellum and Reconstruction-era buildings in the immediate Atlanta area. The Marietta National Cemetery, established in 1866, is the final resting place for more than 10,000 Union soldiers who died during the Atlanta campaign, and it sits alongside the nearby Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, giving the city a genuine concentration of Civil War historical sites within its immediate vicinity. The "Big Chicken," a roughly 56-foot-tall chicken-shaped building constructed in 1963 to house a fried chicken restaurant, has become one of the most recognizable and affectionately regarded local landmarks in the entire Atlanta area, reportedly used for decades by NASA as a navigational reference point for astronauts flying into nearby Dobbins Air Reserve Base. Marietta's combination of a well-preserved historic town square, significant Civil War-era sites, and its genuinely beloved oversized-chicken roadside landmark has made it one of the more distinctive and historically layered suburbs anywhere in the greater Atlanta metropolitan area.
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Decatur, GA
Decatur sits just east of downtown Atlanta and has built a reputation as one of the most walkable close-in suburbs in the entire metro area, with a compact downtown built directly around its historic courthouse square that's stayed dense with independent restaurants and shops even as much of the surrounding Atlanta suburban sprawl has developed around car-dependent strip retail. The city hosts the AJC Decatur Book Festival every Labor Day weekend, which has grown since its 2006 founding into one of the largest independent book festivals in the entire country, drawing nationally known authors and tens of thousands of attendees to the small city's downtown streets each year. Agnes Scott College, a private women's liberal arts college founded in 1889, sits directly in the city's downtown core, giving Decatur a genuine small-college presence within easy walking distance of its courthouse square and MARTA rail station. Served directly by MARTA's Blue Line, Decatur's combination of a genuinely walkable historic downtown, one of the country's largest independent book festivals, and direct rapid-transit access into Atlanta has made it one of the most consistently praised close-in suburbs anywhere in the metro area for buyers specifically prioritizing walkability over larger suburban lot sizes.
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