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Location of Roswell in Metro Atlanta Roswell is a town/city in north Fulton County, Georgia, United States.
At the 2010 census it had a populace of 88,346, and in 2014 the estimated populace was 94,089, making it Georgia's seventh biggest city. In 1830, while on a trip to northern Georgia, Roswell King passed through the region of what is now Roswell and observed the great potential for building a cotton foundry along Vickery Creek.
Toward the middle of the 1830s, King returned to build a foundry that would soon turn into the biggest in north Georgia Roswell Mill.
The old Roswell Presbyterian Church, assembled in 1839 According to the 1850 Slave Schedules, these three "founding families", together with the next three biggest planters, held 192 slaves, 51% of the total 378 slaves held in Roswell District.
Barrington King "leased" or "rented" some of his adult male slaves to the Roswell Manufacturing Company, but they did not work around the foundry machinery.
The Roswell region was part of Cobb County when first settled, and the governmental center of county of Marietta was a four-hour (one-way) horseback ride to the west.
Since Roswell inhabitants desired a small-town government, they submitted a town/city charter for incorporation to the Georgia General Assembly.
While many freedmen stayed in the region to work as paid workforce on plantations or in town, the rest migrated to Fulton County and Atlanta for new opportunities.
During those years, close-by Fulton County more than doubled in population, from 14,427 to 33,336.
The difficult economic conditions drove Milton County, Roswell's neighboring county to the north (note: much of what is now Roswell was part of Milton County already), to merge in its entirety with Fulton County, Roswell's neighboring county to the south.
To facilitate the consolidation , Roswell was ceded from Cobb County to turn into part of Fulton County.
Roswell filed all legal records, including vital statistics, real estate, and the results of torts with the county clerk of Cobb before this date; with the county clerk of Fulton, after this date.
Roswell is now one of the biggest cities in the state; its populace has increased most steadily in the last 15 years. Jere Wood, a Republican, has served as mayor of Roswell since 1997.
List of Mayors of Roswell, Georgia Roswell is positioned in northern Fulton County at 34 2 2 N 84 20 39 W (34.033896, 84.344028). It is bordered to the north by Milton, to the northeast by Alpharetta, to the east by Johns Creek, to the southeast by Peachtree Corners in Gwinnett County, to the south by Sandy Springs, to the west by unincorporated territory in Cobb County, and to the northwest by the town/city of Mountain Park and by unincorporated territory in Cherokee County.
It is the most crowded city in Georgia with less than 100,000 citizens .
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, Roswell has a total region of 42.0 square miles (108.8 km2), of which 40.7 square miles (105.5 km2) is territory and 1.3 square miles (3.3 km2), or 3.06%, is water. Climate data for Roswell, Georgia As of 2010 Roswell had a populace of 88,346.
The ethnic makeup of the town/city was 81.51% White, 8.54% African American, 0.20% Native American, 3.74% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 4.08% from other competitions, and 1.90% from two or more competitions.
In the city, the populace was spread out with 24.4% under the age of 18, 8.2% from 18 to 24, 35.1% from 25 to 44, 24.7% from 45 to 64, and 7.5% who were 65 years of age or older.
Roswell Median Housing Value CNN titled Roswell #76 for its list of the Top 100 Places to Live in the US in 2010. Roswell was listed third in the book, Best Places to Raise Your Family, released by Frommer's. On October 30, 2006, the City of Roswell was titled the 18th Safest City in the United States by City Crime Rankings, an annual reference book of crime statistics and rankings presented by Morgan Quitno Press.
Roswell was chose from 371 metros/cities in the Overall Safest 25 category. The Consulate-General of Honduras in Atlanta is positioned at Suite 3 in 600 Houze Way in Roswell. The city's biggest employers are The Kimberly Clark Corporation, North Fulton Regional Hospital, Harry's Farmers Market, and The City Of Roswell. A section of route 400 between Roswell and Atlanta is known as the high tech corridor, where many technology firms like Kimberly Clark have factories or offices. As of the 2006 census one third of Roswell's 5.000 registered company were home based.
Many Roswell inhabitants work in close-by Atlanta. Businesses with their command posts in Roswell including Snorg Tees, Tripwire Interactive, and Pharsalia Technologies. Roswell's economy is large enough to recruit franchises from many prominent Georgia company like Chick Fil A and Heel Sew Quik operate multiple locations in Roswell. In 2015 Roswell was ranked 224 for economic expansion among small American cities. Historic Roswell Visitors Center Pond at East Roswell Park The Roswell Recreation and Parks department has 18 parks with 800 acres (3.2 km2) of active and passive parkland and facilities.
The goals of the department are to promote a sense of improve spirit and athleticism in the youth of Roswell partnering with many small-town middle and high schools to achieve its goals by lending practice fields and athletic coaches throughout the year.
A branch of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, a component of the National Park System, is positioned in Roswell at Vickery Creek.
Roswell Memorial Day Ceremony the biggest Memorial Day Ceremony in Georgia Roswell Roots: A Festival of Black History & Culture (February) Roswell Criterium Bicycle Race and Historic Roswell Kiwanis Kids Bike Safety Rodeo (May) Roswell Magnolia Storytelling Festival (June) Roswell Youth Day Parade and Festival (October) Keep Roswell Beautiful Duck Race (October) Roswell Annual Fireworks Extravaganza July 4 Roswell Wine Festival (first Sunday in October - Sunday, October 4, 2015) Roswell's small-town enhance schools are part of the Fulton County School System.
Roswell North Elementary School Entrance to Roswell High School.
Roswell High School Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System operates the Roswell Branch and the East Roswell Branch. President), lived in Roswell the majority of her life and was the inaugural chairwoman of the Roswell Historical Society. Roswell King (1765 February 15, 1844) American businessman, planter, and industrialist Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, the mother of Theodore Roosevelt (the 26th US President) and grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt, came from Roswell.
Two-time National League MVP, former Atlanta Braves baseball player Dale Murphy, lived in Roswell in the 1980s. In 2006, Tom Price was re-elected to a second term in the United States House of Representatives to serve as the Congressman from the 6th congressional precinct of Georgia, the precinct that encompasses most of Roswell. a b c "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Enumeration Summary File 1 (G001), Roswell city, Georgia".
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