The History of Vickery Creek

This waterway, once called Vickery Creek and now Big Creek, took its name from Charlotte Vickery, a Cherokee woman who farmed near its headwaters in the 1830s. For more than 140 years its waterpower drove a string of Roswell mills.

The History of Vickery Creek 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 34.0131, -84.3603 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 Site of the First Factory of the Roswell Manufacturing Company, 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.