Kennesaw Mountain
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Kennesaw Mountain is a mountain between Marietta and Kennesaw, Georgia.
Located at , its summit stands at 1808 feet or 551 meters above mean sea level.
It was the site of the Battle of Kennesaw Mountain in the 1864 Atlanta Campaign of the American Civil War, and is within Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park.
The mountain is actually two summits, Big Kennesaw, where the modern-day parking area and scenic overviews are located, and Little Kennesaw, where several light hiking trails and nature areas connect the mountains to the rest of the National Battlefield Park.
At the base of the mountain, the park entrance hosts a Visitor Center, museum, and numerous self-guided tour trails that document Union General William Tecumseh Sherman's "March to the Sea" during the Civil War.
Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis, the first commissioner of Major League Baseball, was named after the battle in which his father nearly lost his left leg.
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