Kennesaw
Kennesaw sits near Kennesaw Mountain in Georgia, United States, where a suburban community occupies the rolling Piedmont terrain northwest of Atlanta. Before it adopted its present name, the settlement was called Big Shanty, a railroad stop on the Western & Atlantic Railroad. In 1862 it became the starting point of the Great Locomotive Chase, when Union raiders seized the locomotive General during the Civil War. That episode remains central to local identity: the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History preserves the General and interprets the region’s rail and wartime past. Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park, south of the city, commemorates the 1864 Atlanta Campaign and links the area to one of Georgia’s defining Civil War landscapes.
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Among the cities of Georgia, Kennesaw stands out for its close ties to Kennesaw Mountain and the Civil War campaign fought around it. The city lies northwest of Atlanta, where Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park preserves ground associated with the 1864 Atlanta Campaign. In downtown Kennesaw, the Southern Museum of Civil War and Locomotive History holds the locomotive General, central to the Great Locomotive Chase of 1862. The mountain’s trails and the museum give the city a distinct identity within the Atlanta metropolitan area. Browse additional webcams from the surrounding area to extend your view of Kennesaw and northwest Georgia.
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