- Collection:
- Vanishing Georgia
- Title:
- [Painting of James Robert Glore, Mableton, Cobb County, Georgia, ca. 1885]
- Date of Original:
- 1885
- Subject:
- Merchants--Georgia--Mableton
Business--Georgia--Mableton
Education--Georgia--Mableton
Portraits--Georgia--Mableton
Cities and towns--Georgia--Mableton - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Cobb County, Mableton, 33.81872, -84.58243
- Medium:
- paintings (visual works)
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- "Mableton, ca. 1885. Portrait done ca. 1885, when Glore Academy was built
Copy of portrait of James Robert Glore, first white child born in Cherokee Indian Village of Sweet Water Town, his family had come into area with district surveyors.
MABLETON, Cobb County, GA 30059 - The first passenger train from Atlanta reached the A.Y. Moss General store in Mableton in December 1881, after track laying had been completed on the Georgia Pacific Railway from Atlanta to Mableton.
Mableton then had two schools, the Mable School north of the railroad tracks, and the fair view school south of the railroad tracks.
Thomas J. Lowe, as attorney-in-fact for the heirs of his father John C. Lowe, subdivided 40-acre Land Lot 1295 of the 19th District and 2nd section of Cobb County, Mableton, into 25 business lots facing the railroad and 36 residential lots north of the business lots facing Mable and Moss Streets, and offered them for sale to the public at auction held on the ground Saturday, May 6, 1882. See Plot Book 5, page 19, Cobb County Deed Records.
This subdivision was bounded on the south by Front Avenue, a street that followed the curvature of the railroad tracks; on the east by Mitchell Street; on the north by Avery Street, and on the west by Daniel Street.
A railroad depot had been erected south of Front Avenue in 1881, and T.J. Lowe subsequently built a 25-room home immediately south of the railroad depot, at the present site of First National Bank of Cobb County.
Several stores were constructed on Front Avenue facing the railroad, and the Mableton Post Office was established June 28, 1882, with the appointment of William N. Pace as the first Post Master.
J.M. Barber was appointed Post Master succeeding Mr. Pace, effective December 22, 1884, and he was succeeded by his widow, Mrs. Eliza A. Barber, who was appointed Post Master March 19, 1890.
James Robert Glore (born July 28, 1832), who had Owned and operated a grist Mill, tannery, and show manufacturing plant on Glore Drive, in Mableton, before and after the War Between the States, and who then had a general store on Front Avenue at Lowe Street, built the Glore Academy at the southwest corner of Lowe (now Church) Street and Moss (now Center) Street in 1885, and after Mr. Glore's death (July 1, 1886) this building housed the Mableton School, until the two-story First Baptist Church building was completed, into which the Mableton School moved, and the Glore Academy building was sold to settle Mr. Glore's estate.
In 1900 a school building was built back of the church building, which housed the Mableton School until early in the 1930 decade when the consolidated Mableton High School building was completed and used until it burned in the Fall of 1948.
The hub or center of Mableton is back of the Mableton Post Office, where the southeast corner of Land District 19 and the southwest corner of Land District 17 join the northern boundary of the 18th land district.
In 1960 a census of Mableton within a two mile radius of this central point was taken and Mableton was listed in the World Almanac for a decade there after with a population of 7,127. No census of Mableton was taken in 1970, but Congressman McDonald advises one will be taken in 1980."--from field notes - External Identifiers:
- Metadata URL:
- https://dlg.usg.edu/record/dlg_vang_cob736
- Digital Object URL:
- https://dlg.galileo.usg.edu/vang/do:cob736
- Rights Holder:
- Held by Georgia Archives, 5800 Jonesboro Road, Morrow, GA 30260.
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- Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
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