Costco to Host Book Signing for Local Georgia Authors

Authors will be available to sign copies of Historic Roswell, Duluth, and Cobb County pictorial histories
 
MT. PLEASANT, S.C. - June 10, 2013 - PRLog -- In the 1830s and 1840s, low country planters came to Roswell, Georgia, seeking relief from the heat and malaria that plagued Georgia's golden coast. The wealthy plantation owners were attracted to the temperate North Georgia climate by Roswell King-a former Glynn County plantation supervisor, builder, and entrepreneur-who promised his friends free land on which to build their homes and stock in the textile mill he built in 1839. The village of Roswell was laid out in 1840 with wide streets, a park, mills, and a residential area, and a community founded by devout Presbyterians and hard-working industrialists began to take shape. By the onset of the Civil War, Roswell had two cotton mills, a woolen mill, and flour and grist mills nearby. The town's strategic location near the Chattahoochee River made it a target of Union Gen. William T. Sherman during his March to the Sea in 1864. While Federal soldiers occupied Roswell that summer, none of the grand homes of the town were destroyed. Residents persevered the tolls of war and Reconstruction to rebuild mills and strengthen the local economy. A small and rural community through the early part of the 20th century, Roswell experienced phenomenal growth in the latter half of the century to become a bustling Atlanta suburb; yet much of the charm and small-town character remains and thousands of tourists are attracted each year by its beautiful antebellum homes and buildings. These treasured landmarks are the subject of this engaging retrospective, and each snapshot glimpse will illuminate the Roswell of yesteryear.

Join the Authors for a Book Signing of Historic Roswell
Where:  Costco
2855 Jordan Couty, Alpharetta GA 30004
When:  Saturday, June 15th, 2013; 12:00 —3:00 p.m.

Duluth was originally founded as Howell’s Crossroads in 1821 by prosperous farmer Evan Howell. The little farming village got a boost and a name change when the railroad came through in 1871. At the dedication of the new depot, Evan Howell’s grandson named the town Duluth in honor of a little railroad town in Minnesota that had taken a drubbing in Congress. The name stuck, and in the next 100 years Duluth grew from an agricultural hamlet to a populous suburb of metropolitan Atlanta.

Duluth was home to Alice Strickland, a prohibitionist and the first woman mayor in Georgia. It was also the site of early genetic engineering that resulted in the ubiquitous white chickens now dominating the poultry industry. The town’s community spirit also built a hospital and inspired a nation to provide medical care to rural areas.

Historic Roswell, Georgia
by Joe McTyre and Rebecca Nash
Images of America Series
128 pages/ softcover
Published: July 15, 2001

Join the Author for a Book Signing of Duluth!
Where:  Costco
3980 Venture Drive, Duluth GA 30096
When:  Saturday, June 15th, 2013; 12:00 —3:00 p.m.

Duluth
by S. Lorraine Norwood
Images of America Series
128 pages/ softcover
Published: August 29, 2011

Cobb County was a wilderness of virgin forests and unspoiled vistas inhabited by the Creek and Cherokee Indians when the first settlers began arriving in the early 1800s. Farms, railroads, booming trade, new houses, schools and churches, and industrial development soon marked the area. After the state land lottery in 1832, wagonloads of people poured into the new county, encroaching on American Indian lands. The federal government’s removal of the Native Americans, construction of the state-owned railroad, and the Civil War greatly affected Cobb County in the 1800s. Reconstruction and the Great Depression forced a severe economic downturn on the entire South, and the area lagged behind the rest of the nation until after World War II. Unprecedented growth in the last half of the 20th century and the beginning of the 21st has boosted Cobb’s economic stance and its place as the fourth largest county in Georgia.

Join the Authors for a Book Signing of Cobb County!
Where:  Costco
645 Barrett Parkway NW, Kennesaw GA 30144
When:  Saturday, June 15th, 2013; 12:00 —3:00 p.m.

Cobb County
by Rebecca Nash Paden, Joe McTyre
Images of America Series
128 pages/ softcover
Published: September 19, 2005
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