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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMEM_mcphersons-troops-at-shallow-ford_Roswell-GA.html
Here, in 1824, Jacob R. Brooks established a ferry at Shallow Ford where the old Hightower Trail crossed the Chattahoochee.
July 10, 1864. Dodge's 16th A.C., after a forced march of 27 mi. from the Sandtown Rd. (near Mableton), via Marietta, re…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMEK_garrards-cav-newtons-division_Roswell-GA.html
July 9, 1864. Roswell bridge, having been destroyed by the retreating Confederates, Garrard's cav. [US] waded the river at Shallow Ford in face of opposition from the south side.
Wilder's brigade (Miller, commanding) led off ~ its 4 regiments a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMBI_hightower-etowah-trail_Roswell-GA.html
At this point the noted Hightower (Etowah) Indian Trail crossed today's Azalea Drive. With connections from Charleston, via Augusta, the old thoroughfare ran through this section to reach the Indian towns of present - day northwest Georgia. The Hi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMMBE_hightower-trail_Roswell-GA.html
Already a well-established route in the 1700s, the Hightower Trail was a major Indian thoroughfare and part of a network of trails connecting Augusta with the Etowah River area and Alabama. The path crossed the Chattahoochee River at a shallow for…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMECL_the-old-bricks_Roswell-GA.html
Erected in 1839 for workers in the Roswell Cotton Mill, these apartments were the first built in the South and are believed to be the oldest in the United States.
They served briefly as a hospital for wounded Federal soldiers in 1864.
The Ro…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEC9_roswell-factory_Roswell-GA.html
Chattahoochee River water power caused Roswell King to establish a town here in 1837. He had a cotton mill in operation by 1839.
By 1853 two cotton mills, a woolen mill, flour mill, and tannery were in operation, employing two hundred and fift…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMEC8_founders-cemetery_Roswell-GA.html
This cemetery, the first in Roswell, was burying ground of the village from 1840 to 1860. Among the distinguished dead who rest here are Roswell's founder, Roswell King; Major James Stephens Bulloch, grandfather of president Theodore Roosevelt and…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAV3_barrington-hall_Roswell-GA.html
Barrington King, co-founder of Roswell with his father, Roswell King, for whom the town is named, selected this spot for his home, which is in the Greek Revival style of architecture. Willis Ball, a carpenter from Connecticut, was the builder. Aft…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM6ZJ_francis-robert-goulding_Roswell-GA.html
Francis Robert Goulding, author, clergyman, inventor, lived in this house at the time of his death, August 22, 1881, and is buried in the Roswell Presbyterian Cemetery. The son of Rev. Thomas Goulding, founder and first president of the Presbyteri…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5U4_roswell-presbyterian-church_Roswell-GA.html
In 1839, 15 Presbyterian men and women, 'members of the colony' of Roswell, invited the Rev. Nathaniel A. Pratt, D.D., of Darien, to organize the first Presbyterian church of Roswell. These charter members included the Bulloch, Dunwody, Hand, King…