Roscoe-Dunaway Gardens Historic District, Historic garden district in Coweta County, Georgia, United States

The Roscoe-Dunaway Gardens Historic District is a site with rock formations, gardens, and historic buildings in Georgia. The area includes nearly eighty structures, spring-fed pools, a waterfall, and landscaped gardens situated within granite formations.

Hetty Jane Dunaway, an actress married to Wayne Pendleton Sewell in 1916, spent eighteen years building a theater-garden on his family's former plantation, employing architects and a full-time stone mason for a decade. The grounds opened in 1934 as a performing arts training program, with twelve spring-fed pools, a waterfall, sunken and hanging gardens and a thousand-seat amphitheatre. Interest fell through the 1950s as television and better roads drew people to Atlanta, and the gardens closed in the 1960s. After Dunaway's death they were overgrown with kudzu and hit by arson until Jennifer Bigham's family bought and restored them in 2000, reopening in 2003.

Hetty Jane Dunaway opened the grounds in 1934 as part of a performing arts training program for performers and other theater professionals. Guests stayed at a Honeymoon House, and the Blue Bonnet Tea Rooms served meals; visitors included Roy and Walt Disney and Tallulah Bankhead.

The gardens lie south of Roscoe, with part of the district in Fulton County. Jennifer Bigham and her family bought the overgrown site in 2000 and reopened it in 2003; paths pass the twelve spring-fed pools, the waterfall and the thousand-seat amphitheatre. The grounds are also used for weddings, so check opening arrangements before travelling.

Hetty Jane Dunaway's crews used explosives to blast a hole in the granite for the swimming pool, one of twelve spring-fed pools she built. She kept architects and a full-time stone mason on the payroll for a decade, and the grounds also held a waterfall, sunken and hanging gardens and a thousand-seat amphitheatre.