Area historical groups are seeking help with restoring a Cobb County treasure.

Built about 1850, the Hooper-Turner House on Oakdale Road in South Cobb, witnessed the growth of a frontier community along strategic transportation routes, the construction of unique Civil War fortifications by enslaved African-Americans preceding the Battle of Atlanta, the growth of Atlanta and Marietta, 20th century industrialization, the Great Depression and World War II. 

Throughout this 150-year history, the modest house provided functional shelter for its owners and their families. Today, the house stands empty.

The house carries an oral legend that it was used as a Civil War hospital.  The Marietta Daily Journal, May 13, 2007, quoted next-door neighbor Kathleen DeLay as saying, “It was the place where soldiers stopped to be taken care of and given medicine.”  In 2003, the Cobb County Board of Commissioners accepted the house to the Cobb County Historic Register.

MIC commissioned a feasibility study of the house with grant funding through The Community Foundation for Greater Atlanta. The home's location provides an opportunity for use as an interpretive center for the surrounding Chattahoochee River Line Battlefield.  

The Mableton Improvement Coalition, the Smyrna Historical and Genealogical Society and The River Line Historic Area have united to preserve and rehabilitate the Hooper-Turner House near the Chattahoochee River.

Anyone interested in working on this effort should contact Roberta Cook via email.