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[[center]][[underline]]GEORGIA[[/underline]][[/center]]

name. There is a small lawn bisected by a box-trimmed walk, and a square garden planted in vegetables, fruit trees, Madonna lilies and roses.
[[par. indent]]This garden forms a part of the house-ground development instead of lying beyond the service yard as is usual in southern gardens.

^[[+]] [[bracketed]] [[underline]]MIMOSA HALL[[/underline]] ^[[Roswell, Georgia]] [[/bracketed]]

^[[checkmark]] [[red dot]] [[underline]]70[[/underline]]. There were idealists in New England in the eighteenth century, and one of them, Roswell King of Connecticut, went south in his endeavor to realize his dreams.

[[par. indent]] ^[[(]]Roswell King went to Georgia in 1789^[[)]] looking for a place "where friendship, contentment, nature, simplicity and beauty would combine to bring about a kind of Paradise." Thus, was ^[[(]] [[underlined]] Roswell, Georgia [[/underlined]], found^[[insertion]]ed[[/insertion]] by King^[[)]] and a number of chosen friends. ^[[(]]There were thirteen families in the original colony and among the building[[handwritten text]]s,[[/handwritten text]] still standing is Mimosa Hall, built between 1820 and 1830 by Major John Dunwoody. He and his wife laid out the gardens and the outlines may be easily seen at the present day.^[[)]]