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Roswell's first burial ground, used from 1840 to 1860, holds town founder Roswell King and Major James Bulloch, grandfather of Theodore Roosevelt. A scarlet fever epidemic in 1841 filled many small graves, and enslaved people lie here unmarked.
Founders' Cemetery is a historical marker in Roswell, Fulton County, erected in 1977. 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 34.0144, -84.3560 near Roswell. The nearest cataloged historic site is Roswell's Historic Founders' Cemetery (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Founder Cemetery, Mechanics of a Mill, and 1853 Mill and the Textile Industry.
This record is drawn from Georgia historical-marker records. Use the map below for its exact position and turn-by-turn directions.
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