Roswell's first burial ground served the young mill village from the 1840s, filling fast during an 1841 scarlet-fever outbreak; founder Roswell King and Theodore Roosevelt's grandfather James Bulloch rest among the graves.
Roswell's Historic Founders' Cemetery
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Roswell's Historic Founders' Cemetery 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 34.0144, -84.3561 near Roswell. The nearest cataloged historic site is 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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