Flowery Branch

History

Flowery Branch was established in 1874, one year after the Richmond and Danville Air-Line Railroad Railway System built a rail line through the city connecting Charlotte to Atlanta. The city hosts the Historic Caboose exhibit and the Historic Train Depot museum. Flowery Branch was originally named Anaguluskee, a Cherokee Indian word meaning "flowers on the branch". Other sources claim the original name was Nattagasska ("Blossom Creek"), which long-term residents recall as an alternative nickname for the town. Andrew Jackson passed through Flowery Branch on his way to the First Seminole War in 1818. The historic Bowman-Pirkle House, built that same year, was originally located on the border of Flowery Branch and Buford. Part of the historic Old Federal Road is in Flowery Branch. It was an important route through northern Georgia in the early to mid-1800s. Its most obvious significance lay in four issues: the early history of Cherokee-U.S. social, economic, and cultural relations in the early 1800s; the eventual use of the Road as part of the Trail of Tears; use of the Road during the Georgia Gold Rush; and Union and Confederate use of the Road during the campaigns for Chickamauga in 1863 and Atlanta in 1864.

Geography

According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and 0.40% is water. Flowery Branch is within the Brevard Fault zone. Natural resources in the Flowery Branch area include: gray marble, marble, clay, granite, graphite, limestone, iron ore, manganese, pegmatite, mica, beryl, quartzite, zircon, lead, copper, silver, and gold as known by the local Gold Hill Mine and regional popularity of The Hall County Gold Belt prospected during the Georgia Gold Rush. Pyrite is also abundant in the region. Other resources located within the near vicinity of Flowery Branch include: asbestos, corundum, sand, and precious gems such as diamond and ruby. Flowery Branch borders Chestnut Mountain and Oakwood. City limits are from Gainesville and Braselton. Flowery Branch is on the shores of Lake Lanier.

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Largest nearby schools

• Gainesville High School
  High · Gainesville · 2,294 students · 17.8:1 ratio
• Flowery Branch High
  High · Flowery Branch · 1,363 students · 16.6:1 ratio
• Johnson High School
  High · Gainesville · 1,290 students · 13.9:1 ratio
• West Hall High School
  High · Oakwood · 1,241 students · 16.1:1 ratio
• Cherokee Bluff High School
  High · Flowery Branch · 1,151 students · 17.2:1 ratio
• South Hall Middle School
  Middle · Gainesville · 955 students · 12.4:1 ratio
• West Hall Middle School
  Middle · Oakwood · 863 students · 13.5:1 ratio
• Spout Springs Elementary School
  Elementary · Flowery Branch · 850 students · 18.1:1 ratio