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Hiking areas near Marietta, Georgia

There were several nice places for day hiking in the Marietta Area. The Chatahoochie River NRA has lots of historic ruins, and though most of the land was once occupied, it's returned to a fairly wild state. There are many plots of park land along the Chatahoochie River.
Dam on Vickery Creek was built in the 1800's to provide hydro power for the Roswell Manufacturing Company, which manufactured cloth from raw cotten from area farms.
Dam on Vickery Creek, Side View Turbine at the RMC
Overshot water wheel, and flume from a later era when the turbine above was installed
Flower at Vickery Creek
Chatahoochie River
Morgan Falls Dam
Sibley Pond, a water impoundment above the Sope creek Paper Mills
All land in Georgia was once occupied, so it's not surprising to come across remains of old houses in'wild' places
Old family plots in the woods are not rare either.
Flower Near Sope Creek
The Mills on Sope Creek made paper for the Marietta Paper Company for about 50 years before and 50 years after the Civil War.
A winch abandoned in the East Palisades Woods.
A Tank abandoned in the East Palisades Woods.
The Chatahoochie River from the East Palisades.
A Box Turtle, commonly seen in Georgia after rains, at East Palisades
A Northern Water Snake, Midland Banded Watersnake Subspecies, Nerodia Sipedon, along Rottenwood Creek. I saw this 5/8 inch diameter, 2 foot long water snake, and another about 1 1/4 inch diameter, 3 1/2 foot one basking in the sun together fairly regularly in November and December, 2009, even though temperatures fell below freezing one day out of 2.
Kennesaw National Battlefield
Cannon at the Kennesaw Civil War Bttlefield
A trench and berm built by Confederacy Soldiers. Logs atop the berm the soldiers could shoot through have long since rotted away. Many places in Georgia have old Civil War constructs like these.
More Fall Colors of Kennesaw Battlefield are on my Pictures near my House page.

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