by Mike Walden

Built in 1850, the building was used as a hotel, providing travelers a place to rest in old Marietta. The hotel’s most infamous customer, Union General William Tecumsah Sherman, used it as a command post as he made his final plans for the fateful march on Atlanta. The only reason the Kennesaw House was spared by General Sherman is because the owner, Dix Fletcher, was a Mason and a Union supporter, not to mention his son-in-law being a Union spy. Almost a century later, the Kennesaw House was remodeled into offices on the Square. After years of unsuccessful commercial usage, the building once thought of as a jewel of Marietta sat vacant.
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