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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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Roswell, GA
Roswell was founded in the 1830s by Roswell King as a planned mill town built around textile manufacturing powered by the Chattahoochee River, and the Roswell Mill ruins, along with several preserved antebellum homes from the same founding era, have made the city's historic district one of the more architecturally significant in the greater Atlanta area. Bulloch Hall, an 1839 Greek Revival mansion built by one of the town's founding families, was the childhood home of Mittie Bulloch, whose son, Theodore Roosevelt, would go on to become the 26th president of the United States — a direct historical link between a modest Georgia mill town and a sitting American president that Roswell has preserved and interprets for visitors today. The city's historic district along Canton Street has developed into a genuinely walkable commercial corridor of restaurants, galleries, and shops, giving Roswell a preserved small-town center distinct from the newer commercial and residential development that's grown up around it as metro Atlanta has expanded northward. Roswell's combination of significant antebellum mill-town history, a direct genealogical connection to a US president through Bulloch Hall, and a well-preserved walkable historic commercial district has made it one of the more historically rich suburbs anywhere in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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