Charles was born in 1828 in Liberty County, Georgia (south of Savannah), as the 6th and last child of James Bulloch Dunwoody, a Physician. The family was aquainted with Roswell King, and kin to James Bulloch. When Roswell King moved inland to what is now Roswell, he parceled the Dunwoody's a plot of land to the North of town. James Dunwoody opened a tannery that Charles worked. This evolved into a shoe manufacturing mill in Roswell owned by Charles. At the beginning of the war, Charles formed the Roswell Guard and led it as a Major. He was at first Mannassas where he was severly wounded. He returned home, and ran the home guard. If you read my previous post, you know what happened to Roswell. After Sherman left, Charles worked as a private in the cavalry in Georgia. Upon returning home to the ruins, he moved south to the approximate location of the Spalding-Roberts intersection and began farming. He requested a post office and the town of Dunwoody was born. In his later life, he built a railroad from Chamblee, thru Dunwoody, to Roswell where raw materials were sent and manufactured into goods. The name of the only Engineer of this line was "Roberts", hence the road. Dunwoody also re-built a bridge near the present day Roswell Rd. bridge across the Chattahoochie.
Dunwoody once encompassed the area along Spalding to the river, what is now Sandy Springs (sic). Dekalb County ceded the land to help form a new county, Milton, which was for all practical purposes what we call North Fulton. It was disolved into Fulton County later. Too bad, I'm sure the majority of North Fulton residents would be happy to be out of the Atlanta/Fulton County district.
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