GeorgiaThe Superior Court building at 70 Haynes Street is a modern component of Cobb County's judicial complex in downtown Marietta and is not one of the county's early historic courthouses. Marietta sits at the center of one of Georgia's most notorious episodes of mob violence: in 1915 Leo Frank, an Atlanta factory superintendent whose murder conviction had been tried in Fulton County and whose death sentence the governor had commuted, was abducted from a state prison farm and driven roughly a hundred miles to an oak grove near Marietta, where a mob that included prominent local citizens hanged him on August 17, 1915. That lynching occurred outside the town rather than on the courthouse square, and Frank's trial was never held in Cobb County, an important distinction. Cobb's own antebellum courthouse on the square was burned by Union troops in 1864 and passed through a succession of replacements, including an 1899 building by architect J. W. Golucke, before the present complex took shape. The current Superior Court structure is a comparatively recent brick building rather than a National Register landmark.
Cobb County Superior Courthouse
The stone-and-brick heart of every Georgia county.
Cobb County Superior 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 33.9528, -84.5466 near Marietta. The nearest cataloged historic site is Judge Debra Halpern Bernes (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Cherokee Treaty, Robert Edward Flournoy, Jr., and Cobb County State Courthouse.
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 Superior Court building at 70 Haynes Street is a modern component of Cobb County's judicial complex in downtown Marietta and is not one of the county's early historic courthouses. Marietta sits at the center of one of Georgia's most notorious episodes of mob violence: in 1915 Leo Frank, an Atlanta factory superintendent whose murder conviction had been tried in Fulton County and whose death sentence the governor had commuted, was abducted from a state prison farm and driven roughly a hundred miles to an oak grove near Marietta, where a mob that included prominent local citizens hanged him on August 17, 1915. That lynching occurred outside the town rather than on the courthouse square, and Frank's trial was never held in Cobb County, an important distinction. Cobb's own antebellum courthouse on the square was burned by Union troops in 1864 and passed through a succession of replacements, including an 1899 building by architect J. W. Golucke, before the present complex took shape. The current Superior Court structure is a comparatively recent brick building rather than a National Register landmark.
Sources: cobbsheriff.orggeorgiaencyclopedia.orgtodayingeorgiahistory.org
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