Roswell Wedding

Roswell is a city located in northern Fulton County, Georgia. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 79,334. Census Estimates of 2005 show a population of 85,920.

Roswell was founded by Roswell King, a Native New Englander.

In 1830 while on a trip to North Georgia, where gold had been discovered , he passed through the area of what is now Roswell and observed the great potential for building a cotton mill along the Vickery (Big) Creek.

In the Mid 1830s he returned and built a mill which was soon to become the largest in North Georgia with over 400 employees by the time of the American Civil War in the 1860s

The ruins of the mill and the 30 foot dam that was built for power can still be seen today.

Originally included in now-neighboring Cobb County, the city was incorporated in 1854, when the city charter was signed by the Georgia General Assembly on February 16th. At that time, the nearest large town was the county seat of Marietta, a four-hour (one-way) horseback ride to the west, and residents wanted a more local government.