General Meeting
January 23 @ 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
General Meeting
January 23 @ 7:00 – 8:15 pm ET (Hybrid)
First Presbyterian Church, 189 Church Street, Marietta, GA
Topic: Former Georgia State Parks
Speaker: Andrew Bramlett
Description:
Today there are over 60 Georgia State Parks and Historic Sites, but across our state’s history there are an additional forty sites that once could call themselves state parks. From “lost” ruins of the Spanish to gold mines and military sites to scenic forests, these sites each have unique and often untold stories.
Andrew Bramlett is a local historian. He is Vice President of the Kennesaw Historical Society and an Honorary Member of the Cemetery Preservation Commission for the City of Kennesaw. He volunteers with the Kennesaw Parks & Recreation Dept. and at Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, where he is tour guide on the shuttle bus to the top on the weekends. He is also the Social Media Administrator for the Friends of Kennesaw Mountain.
In 2018 he won a Georgia Historical Records Advisory Council award for Local History Advocacy because of his work on presentations he gives about the history of the City of Kennesaw, Kennesaw Mountain, and his Kennesaw City Cemetery Walking Tour. Andrew was named the 2023 Honorary City Historian for the City of Kennesaw early this year.
He is also the archivist for the Save Acworth History Foundation.
Currently, Andrew is a Dual Enrollment student at Kennesaw State University.
