1853 Mill and the Textile Industry

Roswell's 1853 brick textile mill expanded the Roswell Manufacturing Company into one of antebellum Georgia's largest industrial operations, shipping cloth as far as Philadelphia before lightning destroyed it in 1926.

1853 Mill and the Textile Industry is a historical marker in Roswell, Fulton County. It is one of 357 historical markers documented in Fulton County, among 643 historic sites cataloged across the county on Georgia Roam.

The site sits at 34.0134, -84.3572 near Roswell. The nearest cataloged historic site is Mechanics of a Mill (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Founders' Cemetery, Roswell's Historic Founders' Cemetery, and An Introduction to the Roswell Manufacturing Company.

This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.