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Roswell, GA
Roswell was founded in the 1830s by Roswell King as a planned mill town built around textile manufacturing powered by the Chattahoochee River, and the Roswell Mill ruins, along with several preserved antebellum homes from the same founding era, have made the city's historic district one of the more architecturally significant in the greater Atlanta area. Bulloch Hall, an 1839 Greek Revival mansion built by one of the town's founding families, was the childhood home of Mittie Bulloch, whose son, Theodore Roosevelt, would go on to become the 26th president of the United States — a direct historical link between a modest Georgia mill town and a sitting American president that Roswell has preserved and interprets for visitors today. The city's historic district along Canton Street has developed into a genuinely walkable commercial corridor of restaurants, galleries, and shops, giving Roswell a preserved small-town center distinct from the newer commercial and residential development that's grown up around it as metro Atlanta has expanded northward. Roswell's combination of significant antebellum mill-town history, a direct genealogical connection to a US president through Bulloch Hall, and a well-preserved walkable historic commercial district has made it one of the more historically rich suburbs anywhere in the Atlanta metropolitan area.
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Decatur, GA
Decatur sits just east of downtown Atlanta and has built a reputation as one of the most walkable close-in suburbs in the entire metro area, with a compact downtown built directly around its historic courthouse square that's stayed dense with independent restaurants and shops even as much of the surrounding Atlanta suburban sprawl has developed around car-dependent strip retail. The city hosts the AJC Decatur Book Festival every Labor Day weekend, which has grown since its 2006 founding into one of the largest independent book festivals in the entire country, drawing nationally known authors and tens of thousands of attendees to the small city's downtown streets each year. Agnes Scott College, a private women's liberal arts college founded in 1889, sits directly in the city's downtown core, giving Decatur a genuine small-college presence within easy walking distance of its courthouse square and MARTA rail station. Served directly by MARTA's Blue Line, Decatur's combination of a genuinely walkable historic downtown, one of the country's largest independent book festivals, and direct rapid-transit access into Atlanta has made it one of the most consistently praised close-in suburbs anywhere in the metro area for buyers specifically prioritizing walkability over larger suburban lot sizes.
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