[This is an evergreen article that we periodically edit, expand and republish, about the history of Cobb County and its cities. This one is about the thriving poultry industry that existed in the Belmont area of Smyrna just after the turn of the last century]
Today, agriculture is a ghost from the past in Cobb County, but in the early 20th Century, there was a significant amount of poultry-raising in Cobb.
Last year we ran an article about a 1907 poultry show that highlighted the extent of chicken and turkey husbandry in the county…