Harold Smith
Last night we went to the Marietta Museum of History to hear
Mr. Harold Smith speak about the history of Smyrna. Mrs. Smith knows just about everything about
Smyrna, Georgia, and has plenty of true little humorous stories to complement the history facts.
Harold has written three books about the History of Smyrna. One is an Arcadia Book (the beige local history books)
It was a good talk.
One of the the slide show presentations was a map of Smyrna
of years ago, The map has a very strange
shape. It has long arms and fingers and
little islands. By islands I mean there
were little neighborhoods not part of
Smyrna but was completely surrounded by Smyrna.. The residents of these sections could not leave their non-Smyrna
area to go any place without going into Smyrna.
The same was true for the arms and the fingers city limits borders. Harold didn't mention the reason for the strange city limit borders, but I will.
The reason it was like that
was because the islands and
between the fingers were black neighborhoods.
I remember in the late 1960s the politicians
bragged that they did not have any black residents.
That was something they thought was something to be proud
of, to have a lily white city. Give me a
break.
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