Editing Daisy, Georgia (section)

==History==
[[File:Daisy, Georgia Caboose.JPG|thumb|left|The caboose in Daisy, Georgia, which commemorates the importance of the railroad to Daisy's history.]]
The city of Daisy, Georgia was established in 1890, the same year that the [[Savannah and Western Railroad]] built a [[railroad line]] through the area.<ref name=historicalsociety>{{cite book | first=Dorothy | last=Simmons | year=1999 | title=A History of Evans County, Georgia |publisher=The Evans County Historical Society}}</ref><ref name=backroads>{{cite book |first=Victoria |last=Victoria |first2=Frank |last2=Logue |year=1997 |title=Touring the Backroads of North and South Georgia |publisher=John F. Blair}}</ref> The town was going to be known as Conley, in honor of Rev. W.F. Conley, a [[Methodist]] minister, but the postal service rejected the application for a post office on May 17, 1890, because of the existence of another [[Conley, Georgia]]. The people of the community then decided on Daisy, naming their town for Daisy Leola Edwards,<ref>{{cite book | url=http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/d.pdf | title=Georgia Place-Names: Their History and Origins | publisher=Winship Press | author=Krakow, Kenneth K. | year=1975 | location=Macon, GA | pages=57 | isbn=0-915430-00-2}}</ref> daughter of Thomas Jefferson Edwards and the granddaughter of W.F. Conley. The application for a post office under this name was made on July 14, 1890, and approved on August 26, 1890.<ref name=historicalsociety/>