Editing Flomaton, Alabama (section)

==History==
Flomaton was incorporated as a town in 1908, having been settled on a railway junction in 1869.  The site was a junction of different lines of the [[Louisville & Nashville Railroad]]. Into the 1960s the L&N ran trains south to the beach resort city of [[Pensacola, Florida]]. The L&N main line was a conduit for trains to New York City, Cincinnati, Atlanta and New Orleans. The name "Flomaton" was chosen as a combination of "Florida", "Alabama" and "town", reflecting the town's location on the border between the two states. In the early twentieth century, the town's economy was driven by the timber industry and the town's location at an important railway junction.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.encyclopediaofalabama.org/face/Article.jsp?id=h-3188|title=Flomaton|publisher=Encyclopedia of Alabama|access-date=September 27, 2014}}</ref>