A variety of events for families are held at the mansion and on the grounds throughout the year, as well as daily tours of the house.

He came across this area in the late 1820s and was impressed with its beauty, while realizing the water power potential of Vickery Creek to drive textile mills.

The Kings invited friends to move to the new town they called the “Colony” and invest in the Roswell Manufacturing Company.

William Baker, moved back to Barrington Hall to care for the elderly Catherine King.

With limited money and the help of her sister Katharine, Evelyn Simpson preserved Barrington Hall until her death in 1960.

She left her teaching job in Atlanta and moved to Barrington Hall to manage it on a full-time basis.

Craftsmen also painstakingly restored the horse-hair plaster walls, ceilings, heart-of-pine floors, and moldings.

In 2005 she sold the property to the City of Roswell, with legal agreements designed to ensure the home would be permanently protected and open to the public for historic, educational, and cultural purposes.

The surrounding seven acres of grounds feature the only antebellum public garden in the greater Atlanta area.