Vickery Creek

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Vickery Creek/Big Creek
Big Creek at entrance to Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area, Roswell, Georgia
Mouth	Chattahoochee River

Vickery Creek (Big Creek) is a creek located in Forsyth County and Fulton County in Georgia. The creek flows into the Chattahoochee River at the southern border of Roswell where State Route 9 crosses the river.

Much of the land east of the creek and west of Grimes Bridge Road in Roswell, Georgia, forms the Vickery Creek unit of the Chattahoochee River National Recreation Area.

Vickery Creek is named after a Cherokee woman named Sharlot Vickery that lived in present-day Roswell and owned much of the land around the creek. The creek was originally called Cedar Creek; however, the name was changed to Vickery some time after the arrival of Roswell King and family in 1834.^[1]

The creek also became known as Big Creek at some point after the American Civil War.

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[edit] References

• (1994) in Darlene M. Walsh (Editor),: Roswell, A Pictorial History, 2nd Edition, Roswell Historical Society, pp.16,19,87. ISBN 0-9615854-2-0. 

[edit] External links

• USGS GNIS: Vickery/Big Creek