Crabapple Cemetery
Crabapple Cemetery in North Fulton County, Georgia once a rural area is now completely surrounded by a collection of houses. A small, rutted path leads to the cemetery where many of the original North Carolina Broadwell families where buried. Named after the crabapple orchard owned by Mr. John B. Broadwell and located at the original site of Northwestern School (presently owned by the Crabapple Baptist Church). The crabapple orchard was open to any person in the community, and picnics were often held there while the local farmers were shopping. Because the community had gathered there for years, Mr. Broadwell gave the property to the county to build the Northwestern School.

This region of Georgia was plentiful in cotton. Each of the surrounding communities had a cotton gin, but Crabapple, at one point in its history, had two. The last cotton gin was located at the Raven's Nest Store. Mr. Broadwell was famous for creating a strain of cotton that made more bolls of cotton per stalk than most cotton plants. The money from cotton, before the start of the twentieth century, allowed the local store owners to build their stores with brick. The two existing brick stores in Crabapple were built with cotton money.


Crabapple Cemetery


Jesse Broadwell cemetery stone

Pictures and information graciously provided by Henry Batten (2002).
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