Garrard & Newton Move on Roswell - GHM 033-93 - Cobb Co. GA
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N 33° 56.705 W 084° 24.373
16S E 739715 N 3759098
July 5, 1864. Gen. Kenner Garrard's cav. div. [US] enroute from Marietta to Roswell via this rd., camped on Willeo Creek at Johnston's Fy. Rd.
Waymark Code: WM1VC6
Location: Georgia, United States
Date Posted: 07/12/2007
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Garrard & Newton Move on Roswell
300 ft. W. stood the res. of Wm. Johnston who operated the ferry in the 1850's, where Johnston's Fy. Rd. crosses the Chattahoochee River.
July 5, 1864. Gen. Kenner Garrard's cav. div. [US] enroute from Marietta to Roswell via this rd., camped on Willeo Cr., from which point he sent a regiment S. to burn the Paper Mills on Soap Creek.
July 9. Newton's 4th A. C. div. [US], moving from Vining's Station, traversed this road to Roswell to support Garrard's passage of the river at Shallow Ford -- retracing July 12 & crossing the river at Power's Ferry, July 13.
033-93 GEORGIA HISTORICAL COMMISSION 1963
Located north of Johnson Ferry road west of the Chattanooga River in the "Johnson Ferry North" unit of the Chattahoochee Recreation Area.