Looking for history in Atlanta but feeling the city is a bit too modern? Then travel outside the center to the suburb of Roswell to see traditional Southern architecture with this guided tour!
This tour will take you to see:
- A sampling of Roswell’s 3 antebellum mansions:
- The interior of Bulloch Hall - built in 1839, this is the childhood home of Martha Bulloch Roosevelt, President Teddy Roosevelt’s mother and the site of her wedding to Theodore Roosevelt Sr.
- The grounds and gardens of Barrington Hall - built in 1839, the Greek-Revival style home and grounds contain the oldest public garden in Georgia
- The outbuildings of Smith Plantation - built in 1845, the Plantation still contains original outbuildings such as the cookhouse, slave quarters, barn and carriage house
- Roswell Mill & Covered Bridge - ruins of the Roswell Manufacturing Co. Mill, constructed in 1839 and burned by Union forces in 1864
- Roswell Town Square - built in 1839 by Roswell King, the bandstand was added in 1905 when President Teddy Roosevelt visited his mother's girlhood home