Two mills overlapped on this spot: the brick 1839 factory Union troops destroyed and never rebuilt, and the surviving 1882 mill Georgia's textile revival spurred, the only intact cotton mill remaining at the Roswell site.
Site of the 1839 Mill and the 1882 Mill
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Site of the 1839 Mill and the 1882 Mill 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 34.0133, -84.3592 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 An Introduction to the Roswell Manufacturing Company, 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.
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