Landmarks
The Big Chicken is the best-known example of novelty architecture in the area, sitting (perhaps roosting) on the northeast corner of Cobb Parkway at Roswell Road since the 1950s as Marietta's major roadside attraction. This is now the center of Cobb's two major cross-county highways.
The Cumberland/Galleria area developed around the nucleus of two indoor shopping malls located opposite each other on Cobb Parkway, built in the 1970s immediately south of where I-285 (completed in 1969) now crosses it. Cumberland Mall and then Galleria Specialty Mall were built on the former Boy Scouts' Camp Bert Adams, and were the beginning of one of the metro area's major edge cities. The Galleria has since become part convention center as the Cobb Galleria Centre.
The northwest part of the county is now developing rapidly, and the almost rural nature of the area is quickly disappearing, giving way to strip malls and tightly-packed subdivisions.
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