First Families of Marietta & Cobb County, GA

First Families of Cobb County Georgia

Cobb County was formed from Cherokee County in 1832. It was named in honor of Thomas Willis Cobb, U.S. representative, U.S. senator and Supreme Court judge. The city of Marietta was named after his wife.

When future president Andrew Jackson stood on the banks of the Chattahoochee River and announced that he was here to rid Cherokee land of all encroachers that do not have written permission from Return J. Meigs, he was looking at the future Cobb County. Although the area that became Cobb was lightly populated by encroaching whites at the time, by 1830 nearly 2,000 were in the county, most illegally.

The earliest Alabama Road ran further north through Bartow County, but an excellent road that ran across the "Shallow Ford" in the Chattahoochee appears in writings as early 1824.