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hine on the hall. Outside the house we can see a site for slaves, the slave quarters was constructed on the original site in 1998. The Privy was also reconstructed in 1998, next to the barn. All the way down, we can see a well, which was used to draw water during the earlier times. This hall has been the host for various important activities like the wedding of Mitte, on December 22, 1853 to Theodore Roosevelt. In 1905, President Roosevelt came to see his mother's childhood home and spoke to the crowd from bandstand in the Town Square. History of Bulloch HouseThe founder of Roswell, Roswell King, businessman and manager of the vast Pierce Butler plantation at Darien on the coast of Georgia discovered the land upon which the town of Roswell was founded. Cherokee Indians living on the land were willing to swap acres of land for trickiest and bright swatches of clothes. In 1835, the Indians signed the treaty with the government to sell the land for fifty cents an acre in exchange of equal acreage west of Mississippi River. In the fall of 1838 the army rounded up over 13,000 Indians in Georgia and Alabama and moved them westward during the winter months on the brutal Trail of Tears. The year before the Indians departure, Roswell King left Darien and moved to his land in North Georgia. With slaves he cleared trees and undergrowth, laid out paths and trails, and built a substantial log cabin to live. His wife Catherine Barrington King remained in Darien and died there without seeing the town that carried her husband's name.The Bulloch heritage: James Stephen Bulloch inherited a solid faith in God in him. He was a well﷓educated clergyman, well versed in Latin and Greek, a member of South Carolina assembly and a planter of means. At the age of forty﷓two, he was elected Speaker of the Royal Assembly of Georgia. He served as a delegate to the First Continental Congress in Philadelphia in 1775. James Bulloch and the Elli...