Smyrna Georgia USA

The first historical references to the Smyrna Camp Ground refer to a religious retreat of sorts welcoming all denominations. The Civil War had a Battle of Smyrna Camp Ground, but the municipality of Smyrna was finally incorporated in 1872.

Prior to the war, railroads had been laid in the area, also the area was sometimes called Varner’s Station and Ruff’s Siding.

The Ruff Family bought a mill near the Concord Covered Bridge.

Geographically, Smyrna is just outside the perimeter under Marietta and north of Mableton. Most of Smyrna is north of the East-West Connector, but a residential area is south of the connector.

Sometimes called the Jonquil City, the Jonquil is a flower in the daffodil family.

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Smyrna, Georgia is a city north and west of Atlanta and north and west of the Vinings area of Atlanta. Mostly outside the perimeter and near the Cobb Galleria, Smyrna is an area served by Mark the Mover Atlanta Moving Company. To Smyrna our trucks can come up I75 or we come up Old Atlanta Highway into Smyrna. Smyrna Georgia boasts major arteries like South Cobb Drive and Windy Hill Rd, occupying land south of Dobbins Air Force Base and west of I75.

Smyrna near Mableton and Marietta Ga

The downtown area is straight south of the Dobbins Air Force Base runways approximately a mile to two miles. The downtown area might be considered to be the area near the public library, with other attractions like a Shane’s Rib Shack and the Smyrna Museum. With genealogical resources, the museum has some public exhibits. Also near downtown is the Smyrna First Baptist Church.

The name Smyrna comes from a city in ancient times, specifically associated with Alexander the Great and on the coast of Greece, or Macedonia. The location of Smyrna is actually in modern day Turkey in between the Black Sea and Mediterranean Sea or more precisely the Aegean Sea and the Sea of Marmara which are northern sections of the Mediterranean. Smyrna was a port city on the Aegean section of ancient Greece and south of ancient Troy. West and south of modern Istanbul on the southern mainland of modern Turkey, it was a shipping port that could trade with all the ports in the Mediterranean, and as the Black Sea and Mediterranean were connected bodies of water it is thought, they then could trade with areas North and East that are modern day Russia and Georgia.

Northside Drive was first commissioned on top of Hemphill, which used to bend from its slanted orientation to go directly north. But the name of the road has nothing to do with growing hemp, a common crop from which to make rope, on a hill.

William Hemphill is a terrific Atlanta name from the past. According to Wikipedia, he attended the University of Georgia and fought in the Battle of Gettysburg where he suffered a serious head wound.

We don’t learn whether he was shot in the head, kicked in the head or any other details, but this certainly made him perfect for politics and the news business.

After the war, Hemphill became involved in the Atlanta Journal Newspaper, helped it to become profitable, and later became a city Councilman. In what is described as a close race, Hemphill defeated a Republican African American Mayoral candidate only remembered as McKinley.

In those days, everybody in the south was a democrat, so this was a remarkable attempt at unseating the ‘old guard’ by McKinley. It’s a real shame that someone at Wikipedia does not have more information on McKinley, even if, at first, it might mostly be added to the Hemphill entry.

There is a Jacob McKinley buried in Oakland Cemetery, he was one of the most successful post slavery African Americans in Atlanta. Article here We can’t find proof that this is the same person. If you can run that down, this guy needs his own Wikipedia page.

Hemphill went on after Mayor to head up a Cotton States business group that held exhibitions, fixed prices and promoted southern cotton.

Hemphill was an engineer in college and received his degree from UGA in 1861. If someone in the archives could find more information on what disciplines within the field of engineering he studied, that would be fun to see added to his Wikipedia entry.

Another interesting Hemphill fact is that the Atlanta Waterworks around Howell Mill and Huff Road have Hemphill in their names for many features. Hemphill pump station, Hemphill pond and Hemphill Waste Treatment are just a few of the names around this facility.

Huff road predated William Hemphill by many years, so it is thought that because of his time in Atlanta City government, Hemphill and the Hemphill water works were dedicated to his name early in the 20th Century. William Hemphill died in 1902.

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