was established on this date. From the National Park Service:
The Mission of Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield: Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park was authorized for protection by the War Department in 1917 and was transferred to the Department of the Interior as a unit of the National Park System in 1933. The 2,888 acre park includes the site of some of the heaviest fighting of the Atlanta Campaign of the Civil War. The park was set aside as an important cultural property dedicated to public inspiration and interpretation of the significant historic events that occurred here.
Sadly, the American people, through the National Park Service, preserve and protect only a portion of the battlefield which is increasingly surrounded by urban sprawl. What was once a battlefiled park in the country is now the last remaining greenspace in an urban environment.