The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1888-07-19
KENNESAW MOUNTAIN.

ana a dellghttul city in which to re-
side summer or winter, arrange
ments have been completed that
Will make this the most fashionable
pleasure resort of the entire south.
The Marietta and North Georgia
Real Estate and Investment Co. has
secured 1856 acres of land on the
north and west of the city which in
cludes all of Kennesaw Mountain
and the land surrounding the pres
ent town of Elizabeth, the location
of the Mills of the American Mar
bic Co., and the machine and car
shops of the Marietta & North Ga.
R. r. They have been granted a
franchise for a street railway and
the city council has taken steps to
secure for the city gas and water
works. The 1856 acres of land and
the railway franchise is being trans
ferred to the Marietta Land & In
provement Co., which company pro-
poses building a Motor Line Rail-
Way north via. Elizabeth along the
the southeastern slope of the noun
tain and back to starting point via
Whitlock Avenue. They will also
have a branch to the top of the noun
tain where they propose erecting
fine hotel at cost of S75, 900. They
propose to expend $4,000 in max
ing drives, walks and identifying
the mountain. An observatory is
to be erected on the extreme sum-
nit of the mountain which will afford
the grandest view in America.
What ground is not used for the no
tel, railroad, drives, pleasure
grounds, &C., will be sold to parties
desiring private residence. The old
breast works and Notifications re-
minding us of the terrible fight be-
tween the armies of General John
Ston and General Sherman will be
carefully preserved and will for all
future time be an attraction to the
American citizen. There are sew
eral mineral springs on this property
possessing valuable medicinal prop
critics especially to those coming
from the low country. Immediately
surrounding the marble works the
land will be laid out in lots and sold
to the employees and operatives of
the mills: railroad company &c. For
the benefit of the families of this
particular section, FIVE acres will be
donated for public park. All the
land along the base OF the mountain
will be sold in quantities to suit
parties desiring choice residence
property. The company will donate
10 acres of fine timber land near the
south end of Little Kennesaw for a
public park, providing the city will
agree to improve and take care of it.
AS soon as the transfer of this
property can be made to the Improv-
ment Company it will be plated and
laid off in streets, drives, &C., and
the street railway located. 1t is the
intention to have the railroad com
menced at once and the hotel will be
built during the coming winter.
There is no boom and there will be
none, but you can rest assured that
instead of the 1000 population we
have now we will have, within three
years, 10000. There is no place in
the South that possesses our natur-
al advantages and the people are
finding it out and will come.
To Northern people it seems rid
iculous to come South to spend the
hot season, but we know from expe-
rience that if they come to Georgia's
mountains for the summer, they
will returnt from year to year. To the
people of the North that go to Flor
ida to spend the winter, we say
stop here for a day at least and
take a ride to the top of grand old
Kennesaw and view the grandest
country that the sun ever shown
upon.
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