Roswell: Top 7 Best Places to Visit in Roswell, Georgia

Travel Attractions – Roswell, Georgia

Roswell, Georgia is often mistaken for another part of Atlanta. This is a big mistake. Roswell has much to offer its visitors in the area of history and nature. Three house museums on 640 acres make up the Historic District. They show the city’s 19th-century roots. There are many options for bicycling, including the Chattahoochee River, woodland trails and marsh boardswalks, as well as biking. Roswell has become a popular spot for foodies over the past few years. Canton Street is home to over 20 restaurants and 10 chain stores. Dog-friendly areas are also available in the city. Many shops will provide water bowls for their dogs.

Computer Museum of America

The new museum was opened to commemorate the 50th anniversary since man first landed on the moon in 1969. It is the largest East Coast museum dedicated exclusively to computing and technology. It is expected to be the largest in the world. It contains important home computing landmarks such as the Commodore 64 and Apple 1.

Supercomputers such as Clay-1 are also housed in this collection, which was used at Los Alamos National Laboratory (the birthplace of the Atomic Bomb) in the 1970s. Another important exhibit is an Enigma coding machine, which was used in the Second World War. It was eventually decoded by Alan Turing, a British engineer, for the Allies.

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Teaching Museum North

The Teaching Museum North is both a classroom and a museum. The Presidential Exhibit features life-size cutout portraits of nearly all our presidents and first women by Mary Jane Warren-Stone. They are grouped on a stage without regard for time, with a crowd that includes George and Martha Washington, as well as the Roosevelts and Jimmy Carter. Other people, such as the Bush family, Michelle Obama and Barack Obama, stand to one side of the stage.

The story is rounded out by images from the National Archives and presidential china. This exhibit also examines the role played by the first lady. The Anne Frank hideout and her family are another moving exhibit. It’s recreated so well that you can almost feel you are there with Anne Frank. Even a stuffed Mouschi (the cat that belonged to Peter the teenager boy hiding with Anne), is found lying on Anne’s bed. Anne was forced to leave Moortje, her cat, behind after the family fled.

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Barrington Hall

Barrington, Roswell’s son built his Greek Revival home in 1842 at the highest point of town. This home was the home of King’s family until 2003. You will find portraits of King’s family, their clothes and furniture throughout the home. There are no barriers to keep you from the furniture. It is easy to imagine the King’s children playing in this place. The children might have seen children returning from work at the cotton mill, which funded their extravagant lifestyle.

Only Eva, out of twelve children, was able to inherit Barrington Hall. The family began to look for other income sources in later years. A January 1919 Literary Digest magazine shows a WWI soldier enjoying a cup Barrington Hall Coffee. It is an interesting item. This ad promotes instant coffee by combining patriotism with commercialism. You can also see the tea cans and coffee pots.

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Old Mill Park

Roswell King, a Georgia surveyor, saw Vickery Creek for the first time in 1830s. He knew that he had found the perfect location to build his milling empire. Today, remnants of his mill are still visible.

An 1854 machine shop is visible, as well as an 1882-mill. You can still see the old dam and raceway. Vickery Creek is crossed by a covered bridge. The creek is marked with markers that can be seen as you walk along it.

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Bulloch Hall

Roswell King invited some friends to join him when he visited with his family. One of these friends was James Stephens Bulloch. He worked with the Kings at the factories and cotton mill. James Bulloch, a wealthy man who had lived in Roswell before the move, built Bulloch Hall 1839 to display his wealth.

It made a lasting impression on American history. There are many stories out there, but I was drawn to the unlikely romance between a beautiful southern belle and a young New York aristocrat. James had Martha “Mittie,” Bulloch as his youngest child. On December 22, 1853, she married Theodore “Thee” Roosevelt Sr. Perhaps because they foresaw the war between the north and the south, few northerners were there.

Only Cornelius Van Schaack, “C.V.S.” Roosevelt’s parents and Margaret Van Schaack, his wife, were present. Thee and Mittie traveled to New York to live at a Cornelius-owned home. Their son, Theodore Roosevelt was born there. Their second son, Elliot Bulloch Roosevelt was the father of Eleanor Roosevelt, who would go on to become our 32nd president Franklin Roosevelt’s cousin. Two of Mittie’s brothers, James and Irvine, enlisted in Confederate forces when the Civil War broke out. James, the Confederacy’s top-ranking Secret Service agent in Great Britain, ran blockade runners.

To serve in the Union Army, Thee was paid as a substitute. Mittie was a strong Confederate sympathizer all her life. Mittie, who was heading north with Thee, left behind her long-time companion, Lavina, her young slave. Bulloch Hall houses a restored slave quarters that focuses on the role of African Americans during Roswell’s history.

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Chattahoochee Nature Center

The Chattahoochee Natural Center covers 127 acres of forest and wetland. The Discovery Center is your gateway to the hidden world of the Chattahoochee river. Meet the animals living in the river, see the roots of an oak tree and meet the birds who call it home such as a barred Owl and a red-tailed Hawk. You will find many species of butterflies and other insects, as well as nature art. You will also find some of the animals that have been rescued from the wild and cannot be released back into nature.

There are 2.5 miles worth of hiking trails that take you from the Wildlife Walk (a paved path which allows you to see native wildlife up close) to the Stone Cabin Trail (a loop that passes the Unity Garden, Screaming Eagle Zipline, Adventure Course and past the remains of a stone cabin, once part of 1960s Camp Chattahoochee). Some trails can be connected.

The Homestead Trail connects to the Forest Trail and Kingfisher Pond Trail, for a longer hike. The River Boardwalk Trail, which is the longest, takes you through two distinct wetland habitats: a marsh and swamp that run along the Chattahoochee River.

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Roswell Ghost Tour

A ghost tour is only natural in a town as rich in history as Roswell. You will be taken on a two-and a half-hour tour of Roswell’s historic district by your guide. Ben Glaizer, our guide, was extremely knowledgeable. The highlight of the tour was a visit at Founders Cemetery. This is the burial place of Roswell King, founder of Roswell. Modern streets and houses are where bodies are buried. This mile of easy walking will take you to some haunted places, including the Grand Greek Revival mansions or the humble apartments of a mill worker.

Roswell Ghost Tours paranormal investigators will never sell you fake stuff. All you see is authentic. Bullock Hall has a rocking chair that rocks by itself. This is one example you will hear about. People claim that they feel someone looking directly into their faces when they sit in the chair. We were told by our guide about the things that occur at Mittie’s annual reenactment. Many candles go out without reason. The attic is often occupied by people, so the light is always on even if no one is there.

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