Metro Atlanta
Metro Atlanta

Roswell Revisits the 19th Century

The 1853 Machine Shop on the site of the old Roswell Manufacturing Company. It overlooks Vickery Creek at Roswell's Old Mill Park.  PHOTO / JASON GETZ

Credit: Jason Getz

Credit: Jason Getz

The 1853 Machine Shop on the site of the old Roswell Manufacturing Company. It overlooks Vickery Creek at Roswell's Old Mill Park.  PHOTO / JASON GETZ
By Adrianne Murchison
Feb 24, 2020

A Bulloch Hall lecture series on the history of Roswell and Georgia in the 19th Century starts this week with a conversation on James Stephens Bulloch, an early settler and the maternal grandfather of President Theodore Roosevelt.

Author Connie Huddleston discusses her book, James Stephens Bulloch: Aristocratic Southern Gentleman at 7 p.m. Thursday. Huddleston wrote the biography after researching documents from the time period, letters and newspapers.

More lecture highlights this spring include Northside historian Clarke Otten discussing Issac Roberts, a railroad engineer and operator of the line that extended from Roswell to Chamblee. Trains ran along the railroad from 1881-1920. The Isaac Roberts House is located in Sandy Springs and on the National Register of Historic Places.

Industrialist John Fletcher Hanson, who helped to establish Georgia Tech is the topic of another lecture in the series. For a complete list, visit bullochhall.org.

About the Author

Adrianne Murchison
More Stories

Keep Reading

A portion of I-75 in Cobb County was closed Friday afternoon while a robotic device checked on a "suspicious item." (Courtesy of Channel 2 Action News)

Credit: Channel 2 Action News

Empty pipe with wires caused I-75 shutdown in Cobb, police say

Drivers advised to avoid the area between Delk and Windy Hill roads, near Marietta.

23m ago

What has changed, what hasn’t in 11 years since Cooper Harris died in hot car in Cobb

Children are still dying in hot cars despite technology improvements.

Clayton County parents charged after baby found discarded in trash bag

Police say the parents of 6-month-old Nnakai Pratt tried to hide the body of their son after one of them killed him and discarded him in a trash bag.

The Latest

A portion of I-75 in Cobb County was closed Friday afternoon while a robotic device checked on a "suspicious item." (Courtesy of Channel 2 Action News)

Credit: Channel 2 Action News

Empty pipe with wires caused I-75 shutdown in Cobb, police say

23m ago

Clayton County parents charged after baby found discarded in trash bag

Fired for Kirk posts, former Emory professor weighs cost of free speech

Featured

Members of the conversion crew take a break as the main scoreboard is lowered to the floor to be worked on as the arena gets ready for the next concert at State Farm Arena, Thursday, October 2, 2025, in Atlanta. The crew was working on creating a stage for the Friday, Oct. 3 Maxwell concert. (Jason Getz/AJC)

Credit: Jason Getz / Jason.Getz@ajc.com

Inside the team that transforms State Farm Arena overnight, from games to concerts

State Farm Arena's conversion team assembles and reassembles the basketball court, constructs and deconstructs stages, arranges and rearranges floor seating for each event.

Some ‘No Kings’ protests may snarl traffic Saturday. Here’s how to get around.

"No Kings" protests are scheduled within metro Atlanta Saturday, and some have the potential to tie up traffic. Here's how to get around some of the larger ones.

Georgia students still outpacing national average on ACT. See results by school.

Find out how your child's school and district performed on the college entrance exam.