From the old country to the new world, and from the mill towns of the northeast to the farmlands of the American south.
An Interview with Charles Mayes Hamby, Mayor of Smyrna, 1942-44, conduced by Mary Rodgers , a Campbell High School Student in 1975 Transcribed and Edited by Bill Marchione, 2019 Mary Rodgers: Where did you live in Cobb County? Mays Hamby: We lived on Love Street, corner of Concord Road in the old house that was torn …
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A talk by Melvin Holleman (1925-2014), entitled "Growing Up in Smyrna," delivered before the Smyrna Historical & Genealogical Society at the Smyrna History Museum on July 29, 1999. Transcribed and Edited by Bill Marchione Shortly after moving to Smyrna in 2009, while volunteering at the Smyrna History Museum, I made the acquaintance of Melvin …
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Local Historian North & South 