The Old Bricks

Built in 1839 to house Roswell cotton mill workers, these brick tenements are considered among the oldest surviving mill housing in America. They briefly sheltered wounded Union soldiers in 1864 and were later saved as a community library.

The Old Bricks is a historical marker in Roswell, Fulton County, erected in 1958. 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, -84.3614 near Roswell. The nearest cataloged historic site is Roswell Factory (historical marker), about under a tenth of a mile away. Others within a short drive include Nathaniel A. Pratt, Archibald Smith, and John Dunwoody.

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