Monday marks the start of the Juneteenth holiday week, and cities and counties across the metro will be celebrating.
Cobb County is honoring the memory of the more than 3,000 people who were enslaved there in a unique way.
Local and state leaders will gather with neighbors of a historic Smyrna community to unveil what will be known as Matilda’s Garden.
It will be located near the Covered Concord Bridge Historic District next to the park where hikers enter the Silver Comet Trailhead.
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Matilda’s Garden will include flowers surrounding a black steel park bench. The bench is different because it is part of the Toni Morrison Society’s Bench by the Road Project .
The benches are symbolic markers taken from the author’s remarks in 1989 in which she described a lack of monuments honoring the lives of Africans who were enslaved.
Members of the Concord Covered Bridge Historic District partnered with the Toni Morrison Society to bring the bench to Smyrna.