Kennesaw Archives - Sightseers' Delight

Kennesaw, Georgia, requires heads of households to own a gun

January 13, 2025 Sightseers’ Delight

A Georgia city’s law requiring the heads of households to own a firearm is back in the news.

Should Georgia jurisdictions fund and operate museums?

April 8, 2024 Todd DeFeo

Many local jurisdictions operate museums, pulling money from various sources of public funds to operate them, which raises the question of whether it is a core function of local governments.

Man receives three life sentences for 2021 Kennesaw golf shooting

February 2, 2024 Special to Sightseers’ Delight

A 26-year-old man has received three life sentences after pleading guilty to a 2021 shooting at a Kennesaw, Georgia, golf course.

Board the General during the Southern Museum’s Railroad Rendezvous

July 7, 2023 Special to Sightseers’ Delight

The popular annual Railroad Rendezvous event will return to the Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History on Saturday, July 22.

Burnt Hickory Brewery pauses operations, closes taproom ‘indefinitely’

May 31, 2023 Sightseers’ Delight

Kennesaw Georgia’s Burnt Hickory Brewery plans to pause its operations and close its taproom today.

Southern Spirits returns to downtown Kennesaw on July 3

June 1, 2022 Special to Sightseers’ Delight

The Kennesaw Museum Foundation and the Southern Museum will host Southern Spirits on Sunday, July 3, coinciding with the city of Kennesaw’s Salute to America.

Bus tour highlights history of the Western & Atlantic Railroad

March 11, 2022 Railfanning.org News Wire

Todd DeFeo, founder of The DeFeo Groupe and the publisher/editor of Railfanning.org, will lead a bus tour of the historic Western & Atlantic Railroad on Saturday, April 2.

Georgia museum to display rare locomotive on Aug. 1

July 24, 2020 Railfanning.org News Wire

The Southern Museum of Civil War & Locomotive History will host a rare Glover Machine Works locomotive for five hours on Aug. 1.

McCollum Field honored with 2015 General Aviation Project of the Year award

October 26, 2015 Express Telegraph

The Georgia Airport Association recently awarded Cobb County International Airport-McCollum Field with the 2015 General Aviation Project of the Year award.

Kennesaw wants Texas locomotive moved to museum

April 14, 2015 The Travel Trolley

City officials here are apparently hoping one of the historic locomotives made famous during a daring Civil War event is relocated to Kennesaw.