Site of the First Factory of the Roswell Manufacturing Company

On land Roswell King bought in 1835 from the former Cherokee Nation, the Roswell Manufacturing Company finished its first cotton factory in 1839, the seed of the mill town, but Union destruction in 1864 ended it for good.

Site of the First Factory of 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 34.0132, -84.3598 near Roswell. The nearest cataloged historic site is Effects of the Civil War on the Roswell Manufacturing Company (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include The History of Vickery Creek, Site of the 1839 Mill and the 1882 Mill, and The History of Vickery Creek and the Covered Bridge.

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