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FACTBOOK 2021 21
SMYRNA
The original Smyrna was a city in what is now Turkey,
where the apostle Paul founded a church that appears in
Revelations.
Churches took the name from the Bible to refer to the
area, and the Methodists’ gathering place became known
as the Smyrna Camp Ground.
Smyrna is also known as “the Jonquil City” after the
yellow flowers that bloom there in the spring.
UNINCORPORATED AREAS:
CUMBERLAND
The unincorporated area now known as Cumberland
was once best known as the home of Camp Ben Adams, a
Boy Scout reservation.
The development of Cumberland Mall in 1973, which
was at the time Georgia’s largest enclosed regional mall,
was the catalyst for the region’s explosive economic
growth. Today Cumberland is the home of towering office
buildings, retail, hotels, Truist Park, the Cobb Galleria
Centre and the Cobb Energy Performing Arts Center.
EAST COBB
East Cobb is an affluent unincorporated suburb located
in, as the name implies, the eastern part of Cobb County.
Cobb Countians have lived in parts of the area since early
settlers moved in when the county was incorporated.
Mount Bethel United Methodist Church got its start in
1840 as Bethel Methodist Episcopalian Church.
Johnson Ferry, once a ferry for people from Atlanta to
cross the Chattahoochee, is now a major thoroughfare in
the area.
LAKE ALLATOONA
This U.S. Army Corps of Engineers reservoir on the
Etowah River has a fun name to say, but one whose
origins are unclear.
It shares its name with the Allatoona Mountains, the
Allatoona pass through the mountains and the former
city of Allatoona, which was destroyed when the lake was
created.
Historian Richard Thornton said Allatoona is often
thought to come from a Cherokee word, but he said there
is no proof of this.
“The origin of the word, Allatoona, has remained a
mystery for two centuries,” Thornton writes on his blog,
“People of One Fire.” “Neither the Creek nor the Cherokee
Peoples claim the word as theirs, although local white
historians typically describe the word Allatoona as ‘a
Cherokee word of unknown meaning.’ For 14 years, I
have tried to translate the word, using the mathematics of
statistics applied to Muskogee, Miccosukee (Itsate Creek),
Panoan, Itza Maya, Cherokee and Arawak dictionaries,
but to no avail.”
Thornton posits the name may come from an archaic
European language and mean “All the low mountains” or
“All the mountaintop/hilltop fortified towns.”
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