However, 4.0% of Roswell families live in poverty. Because Roswell residents wanted local government, they submitted a city charter for membership in the Georgia General Assembly. In 1830, during a trip to North Georgia, Roswell King passed through the area of what is now Roswell and saw the enormous possibilities of building a cotton mill along Vickery Creek. Towards the mid-1830s, King rebuilt a factory that would soon become the largest in North Georgia: Roswell Mill.
