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Roswell (Ga.)

LC control no.n 82141105
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Geographic headingRoswell (Ga.)
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Geographic subdivision usageGeorgia--Roswell
Variant(s)Colony of Roswell (Ga.)
Town of Roswell (Ga.)
Special noteOld catalog heading: Roswell, Ga.
Found inGeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009 (ppl; 34°01ʹ23ʺN 084°21ʹ42ʺW)
Georgia's Colony of Roswell, 2015: page 4, etc.(By 1838 Roswell King acquired hundreds of acres to establish the Colony of Roswell, on what was Cherokee land; homes were to be built around a park or square; town of Roswell incorporated February 16, 1854)
Mer. Web. geo, 2007 Roswell (Residential city, Fulton co., NW cen. Georgia, 18 mi. (29 km.) N of Atlanta; pop. (2000c) 79,334; pop. has increased fourteenfold since 1970)
Col. gaz, viewed online March 24, 2024 (Roswell; city (1990 population47,923; 2000 population 79,334), Fulton county, NW central Georgia, 18 mi/29 km N of Atlanta, near Chattahoochee River; 34°02'N 84°22'W. Rapidly growing exclusive suburb of Atlanta on its affluent N side; Historic town center originally a cotton town at water tower site on Chattahoochee River; Bulloch Hall (1839) is Theodore Roosevelt's mother's childhood home; Manufacturing includes medical equipment, computer circuit boards, furniture. Settled c.1837; incorporated 1854)
Geographic area coden-us-ga