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When Sherman's troops burned Roswell's mills in July 1864, some 400 mostly female and child workers were arrested for treason and shipped north by rail. Few ever returned, their later fates so unrecorded they became known as the lost mill workers.
The Lost Mill Workers Of Roswell 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 34.0153, -84.3591 near Roswell. The nearest cataloged historic site is An Introduction to the Roswell Manufacturing Company (historical marker), about 0.1 miles away. Others within a short drive include Roswell Factory, The Old Bricks, 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.
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