Roswell Parmelee

Genesee County's only known French & Indian War veteran

Pioneer of Stone Church

Died 1811 age 72 buried

in Fort Hill Cemetery Le Roy

Marker is on Parmelee Road 0.1 miles south of Lake Street Road.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Roswell Pioneer Plaza

This location incorporates two of downtown Roswell's most historic buildings. East of this location is the Chaves County Courthouse, built in 1911. It is one of the best surviving examples of courthouses built in the Beaux Arts Revival "monumental civic ...

Roswell, NM

The Extraordinary and extra-terrestrials, the unknown and unexplained are what draw people to Roswell, NM. Roswell's early days in the late 19th century were rooted briefly in trade then in farming due to a natural artesian water source just outside ...

Roswell’s Distinguished Men

In this cemetery lie some of Roswell’s leading early citizens, most of whom came here from Georgia’s coastal counties: Francis Robert Goulding (1810-1881), clergyman, inventor, author of The Young Marooners and other juvenile classics; Barrington King (1798-1866), Roswell King’s son, ...

16th A.C. to Roswell

When the 23d A.C. [US] crossed the Chattahoochee at Soap Creek, above the State R. R., July 8, 1864, Johnston’s River Line [CS] (Oakdale Rd.) was evacuated to the Fulton County side, July 9. There being no further need of ...

Garrard & Newton Move on Roswell

300 ft. W. stood the res. of Wm. Johnston who operated the ferry in the 1850's, where Johnston's Fy. Rd. crosses the Chattahoochee River.

July 5, 1864. Gen. Kenner Garrard's cav. div. [US] enroute from Marietta to Roswell via this ...

Roswell

Population 50,000 - Elevation 3,612

Roswell was a watering place for the Pecos Valley cattle drives of the 1870s and 1880s. It was incorporated in 1891 and is seat of Chaves County, named for Col. J. Francisco Chaves, Civil War Soldier ...

Roswell Presbyterian Church

In 1839, 15 Presbyterian men and women, 'members of the colony' of Roswell, invited the Rev. Nathaniel A. Pratt, D.D., of Darien, to organize the first Presbyterian church of Roswell. These charter members included the Bulloch, Dunwody, Hand, King, Smith, ...

Joseph Roswell Hawley

Joseph Roswell Hawley

Born MDCCCXXVI Patriot Soldier Statesman Died MCMV

The First Volunteer in Connecticut 1861 Brevet Major General 1865

Governor 1866 1867

Representative in Congress 1873 1875 1879 1881

United States Senator 1881 1903

Marker can be reached from the intersection of Capitol Avenue and ...

Roswell Factory

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Chattahoochee River water power caused Roswell King to establish a town here in 1837. He had a cotton mill in operation by 1839.

By 1853 two cotton mills, a woolen mill, flour mill, and tannery were in operation, employing two ...