Editing Flowery Branch, Georgia (section)

==History==
Flowery Branch was established in 1874, one year after the [[Richmond and Danville Railroad|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 language|Cherokee Indian word]] meaning "flowers on the branch".<ref>[http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/communities/towns/flowerybranch.shtml]{{dead link|date=July 2018}}</ref> Other sources claim the original name was Nattagasska ("Blossom Creek"), which long-term residents recall as an alternative nickname for the town.<ref>http://www.kenkrakow.com/gpn/f.pdf {{Bare URL PDF|date=March 2022}}</ref>

[[Andrew Jackson]] passed through Flowery Branch on his way to the [[First Seminole War]] in 1818.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Hopper|first1=Buz|title=Jackson at Young's Tavern|url=http://georgiainfo.galileo.usg.edu/topics/historical_markers/county/hall/jackson-at-youngs-tavern|website=GeorgiaInfo: an Online Georgia Almanac|publisher=Digital Library of Georgia|access-date=November 30, 2016}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Jackson at Young's Tavern Historical Marker|url=https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=25030|access-date=2021-05-15|website=www.hmdb.org|language=en}}</ref> The historic [[Bowman-Pirkle House]], built that same year, was originally located on the border of Flowery Branch and [[Buford, Georgia|Buford]].<ref>{{Cite web|date=1973|title=NATIONAL REGISTER OF HISTORIC PLACES INVENTORY - NOMINATION FORM|url=https://npgallery.nps.gov/GetAsset/8a0819d6-6af6-4ca1-ad05-a0974599fc71}}</ref>

Part of the historic [[Federal Road (Cherokee lands)|Old Federal Road]] is in Flowery Branch.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|last1=Ownby|first1=Ted|last2=Wharton|first2=David|date=2007|title=Old Federal Road|url=https://www.dot.ga.gov/InvestSmart/Environment/CulturalResources/Pages/ProjectDetails.aspx?projID=11|access-date=2021-05-15|website=www.dot.ga.gov}}</ref> 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 and Chattanooga National Military Park|Chickamauga]] in 1863 and [[Atlanta in the American Civil War|Atlanta]] in 1864.<ref name=":0" />

[[Ferdinand de Soto]] entered Hall County in March 1540 in transit between [[Stone Mountain]] and the [[Conasauga River]].<ref name=":3">{{Cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=h-8xAQAAMAAJ&q=flowery+branch&pg=PA205|title=Memoirs of Georgia: Containing Historical Accounts of the State's Civil, Military, Industrial and Professional Interests, and Personal Sketches of Many of Its People|date=1895|publisher=Southern Historical Association|language=en}}</ref>