An Introduction to the Roswell Manufacturing Company

Cotton merchant Roswell King, eyeing the waterpower of Vickery Creek, founded this textile mill in 1839 and the planned town that bears his name, drawing coastal Georgia families to a settlement he called 'The Colony.'

An Introduction to the Roswell Manufacturing Company 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 34.0136, -84.3588 near Roswell. The nearest cataloged historic site is The History of Vickery Creek and the Covered Bridge (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Site of the 1839 Mill and the 1882 Mill, Site of the First Factory of the Roswell Manufacturing Company, and Effects of the Civil War on 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.