GeorgiaThe Cobb County State Court building belongs to the county's modern judicial complex in downtown Marietta, a cluster of contemporary brick, concrete and glass structures joined by enclosed walkways rather than a surviving historic courthouse. County government here reaches back to 1832, when Cobb was created with Marietta as its seat, but its early courthouses did not survive: Union forces occupied Marietta in 1864 and the antebellum courthouse on the square was burned during the campaign for Atlanta. A series of replacements followed, among them a turn-of-the-century Golucke design and mid-twentieth-century buildings, leading to the present grouping of which this State Court building is one later addition. Marietta is also remembered as the town most associated with the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, who was hanged by a mob at an oak grove on the outskirts of the city rather than at any courthouse, and whose trial had taken place in Fulton County, not Cobb. This State Court building is not individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
Cobb County State Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Cobb County State Courthouse is a courthouse in Marietta, Cobb County. It is one of 2 courthouses documented in Cobb County, among 377 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.
The site sits at 33.9530, -84.5486 near Marietta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Cherokee Treaty (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Cobb County, Alexander Stephens Clay, and Robert Edward Flournoy, Jr..
This record is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
The Cobb County State Court building belongs to the county's modern judicial complex in downtown Marietta, a cluster of contemporary brick, concrete and glass structures joined by enclosed walkways rather than a surviving historic courthouse. County government here reaches back to 1832, when Cobb was created with Marietta as its seat, but its early courthouses did not survive: Union forces occupied Marietta in 1864 and the antebellum courthouse on the square was burned during the campaign for Atlanta. A series of replacements followed, among them a turn-of-the-century Golucke design and mid-twentieth-century buildings, leading to the present grouping of which this State Court building is one later addition. Marietta is also remembered as the town most associated with the 1915 lynching of Leo Frank, who was hanged by a mob at an oak grove on the outskirts of the city rather than at any courthouse, and whose trial had taken place in Fulton County, not Cobb. This State Court building is not individually listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
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