Cobb Commissioners have agreed on a compromise name, “Mableton’s Chattahoochee River Line Park,” for a new 103-acre park along the Chattahoochee River.
Parks Director Jimmy Gisi says the members of the Mableton Improvement Coalition and the River Line Historic Area, Inc. came up with the new name and ran it by District Commissioner Lisa Cupid who approved of it.
The property runs for one mile along the river and includes a variety of well-preserved Civil War-era earthworks. A large part of the property is on the National Register of Historic Places. Cobb County has owned the property since 1990 when it acquired it through the settlement of litigation.
The work on the park will cost approximately $1 million. Funding will come from the 2016 Special Purpose Local Option Sales Tax (SPLOST) as part of the P.A.R.K.S. program approved by voters. Gisi told commissioners the improvements include a small parking lot, restrooms, signs and historical markers. A small display will show what a confederate Shoupade looked like. Another trail will lead to the remnants of a federal Redan.
From the July 2018 issue of The Bright Side, Cobb County Georgia’s Newspaper covering Smyrna, Vinings, Mableton, Powder Springs and Austell, GA.
