188 COBB COUNTY. 



Campbell and a small portion of De Kalb, and west by Paulding. 

 Laid out from Cherokee, and organized in 1832. 



Rivers, Creeks. — The Chattahoochee is the main stream. 

 The creeks are Sweet Water, Powder Spring, Pumpkin Vine, 

 Nickajack, Olleys, Noses, Proctors, Allatoona, Vickery, Rot- 

 ten Wood, Noonday, Reubs, Wylleo, Soap, and Mud. 



Post Offices. — Marietta, Powder Springs, Acworth, Gol- 

 gotha, High Bridge, Lebanon, Mill Grove, and Roswell. 



Population, Taxes, Representation. — The population is 

 increasing. The census of 1845 gave to Cobb 10,518 inhabi- 

 tants, of which 1,474 were slaves. 



Amount of State tax for 1848, $2,691 61. Sends two rep- 

 resentatives to the Legislature. 



Towns. — Marietta is the seat of justice, and one among the 

 most pleasant towns in Cherokee Georgia. It is situated on the 

 highest point between the Atlantic ocean and Tennessee river, 

 being 1132 feet above the level of the former. It was incor- 

 porated and made the county seat in 1814. Distance from 

 Milledgeville 113 miles northwest, from Augusta 190 miles, 

 from Atlanta 20 by the railroad, from Dalton 80, from Cum- 

 ming 35, from Canton 22. The first house was built by James 

 Anderson, Esq. 



There are four churches — Episcopal, Methodist, Presbyte- 

 rian, and Baptist; several schools, hotels, stores, &c. Population, 

 1,500. Does considerable business, being the market for Cobb, 

 Cherokee, part of Lumpkin, Forsyth, Gilmer, Paulding, and 

 Carroll counties. 



The town is rapidly improving. Since the 1st of May, 1848, 

 more than 60 houses have been built. Many persons from the 

 low country of Georgia and South Carolina have recently re- 

 moved here. The climate and water will compare with any 

 in the world. Provisions are cheap. Marietta, from the ad- 

 vantages it possesses in point of situation, accessibility, cli- 

 mate, and water, is destined to be one amonc; the most 

 attractive places in our State. 



Acworth is a small village on the Western and Atlantic 

 Railroad, twelve miles N. W. of Marietta, in the midst of a 

 thickly settled country. Population about 50. 



