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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM228K_primrose-cottage_Roswell-GA.html
Primrose Cottage was the first permanent residence constructed in Roswell. Built for Eliza King Hand, a daughter of town founder Roswell King, the home features a hand-turned fence executed by an English craftsman. The house was designed by Connec…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM227O_c-j-perry-house_Roswell-GA.html
Home of Charles Jefferson Perry who organized the Citizens Bank of Roswell and developed the north Roswell business district along present-day Canton Street in the late 19th Century.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM227N_holly-hill_Roswell-GA.html
Greek Revival raised-cottage-style home of Savannah cotton broker Robert Adams Lewis. His wife was Catharine Barrington, as niece of town founder Roswell King. A later resident was noted author Evelyn Hanna, whose 1938 novel Blackberry Winter riva…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM227M_pastorium-first-baptist-church_Roswell-GA.html
R. Lee Buice First Pastor to live here
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM224Y_naylor-hall_Roswell-GA.html
Built by Barrington King for Roswell Manufacturing Company textile mills manager H.W. Proudfoot. The columned portico and porte-cochere were added and the house enlarged in the 1920s by Harrison Broadwell. The house is named for his mother's family.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM224E_allenbrook_Roswell-GA.html
circa 1840, built of handmade brick. Originally home and office of the Lauren Woolen Mill; Near Allenbrook is historic site of Laurel Woolen Mill (burned by Sherman's Forces); Lovers Rock, popular antebellum picnic spot.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21YF_zion-missionary-baptist-church_Roswell-GA.html
Organized in 1871, by a group of dedicated African-American Christians, on land donated by white members of Lebanon Baptist Church was established at 929 Zion Circle, Roswell, Georgia as a one-story structure that also housed a school. Zion sur…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1C33_roswells-distinguished-men_Roswell-GA.html
In this cemetery lie some of Roswell's leading early citizens, most of whom came here from Georgia's coastal counties: Francis Robert Goulding (1810-1881), clergyman, inventor, author of The Young Marooners and other juvenile classics; Barringto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1BTE_the-archibald-smith-plantation-home-outbuildings-and-grounds_Roswell-GA.html
In 1838, Archibald and Anne Smith left their home in coastal Georgia and, along with five other families, became founding citizens of the tiny community of Roswell, located on what was then the Georgia frontier. In 1845 they constructed their plan…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11VT_bulloch-hall_Roswell-GA.html
Built in the early 1840's by Major James Stephen Bulloch. His second wife, married in 1832, was Martha Elliott. Their second daughter, Martha (Mittie) Bulloch and Theodore Roosevelt married here in 1853. Their son Theodore Roosevelt was the 25th P…
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