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9
Places
COLLEGES & UNIVERSITIES
1. Kennesaw State University
(Kennesaw Campus)
2. Kennesaw State University
(Marietta Campus)
3. Life University
4. Chattahoochee Technical College
(Mountain View Campus)
5. Chattahoochee Technical College
(Marietta Campus)
6. Chattahoochee Technical College
(Austell Campus)
7. Chattahoochee Technical College
(North Metro Campus)
SHOPPING
HOTSPOTS
1. Town Center at Cobb
www.simon.com
2. Cumberland Mall
www.cumberlandmall.com
3. Merchant’s Walk
www.edens.com
4. The Avenue East Cobb
www.avenueeastcobb.com
5. The Avenue West Cobb
www.avenuewestcobb.com
PLACES OF
INTEREST
1. Kennesaw Mountain
2. Marietta National Cemetery
3. White Water
4. Six Flags Over Georgia
5. Marietta Square
6. The Big Chicken
7. Lake Allatoona
8. Truist Park
9. Atlanta United HQ &
practice fields
10. Southern Museum of Civil War
and Locomotive History
a large regional mall in Gwinnett County, in February said he
actually liked the name ‘Cobb Place’ better, but was convinced by
one of his anchor department stores that the nomenclature would
be confused with Cobb Center, a comparatively small shopping
center located west of Smyrna.”
VININGS
Vinings was named after William H. Vining, who came from the
Northeast to work on the construction of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad. Vining oversaw the construction of a difficult trestle
bridge known as Vining’s Bridge. Local streets Paces Ferry Road
and Paces Mill Road are named after North Carolina entrepreneur
Hardy Pace, who established a ferry service and mill along the
Chattahoochee.
WEST COBB
The unincorporated community in the western part of Cobb
County features close-knit neighborhoods and a lot of space
between them.
Though it is less dense than east Cobb, west Cobb still features
plenty of amenities, such as the Avenue West Cobb shopping
center.
Luca Spratlin enjoys a spiderman ice cream pop at The Cobb County Farm
Bureau’s Farmers Market at Lost Mountain Park in Powder Springs.
- Staff // Thomas Hartwell
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/www.simon.com
/www.cumberlandmall.com
/www.edens.com
/www.avenueeastcobb.com
/www.avenuewestcobb.com