A Message from our Mayor:

Flowery Branch is located approximately 50 miles north of Atlanta, and serves as the front door to Hall County. As the new Mayor of Flowery Branch, I would like to welcome you to our website in hopes that you will want to visit our charming city. We are extremely proud of our community and how far we have come to give our residents a place to live, work and play. We are a beautiful small-town community right on Lake Lanier and we are also home to the Atlanta Falcons. Whether you want to move to northeast Georgia or just visit us on your next vacation, please take a look at what we have to offer. Our residents think this is a paradise, with our four seasons, our mild winters, Lake Lanier and the mountains just minutes away.

Mayor Diane Hirling

Fiscal Year 2009 Draft Budget

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The best way to describe our life here on the shores of Lake Lanier is peaceful. Many have found this is a wonderful place to call home; a place to work, live, and play. The community of Flowery Branch has a strong volunteer base and recognizes the benefits of working together, thus ensuring that what we once took for granted prospers in our city. Flowery Branch is blessed to have a long history dating back to when "Cotton was King", and when the big iron horse brought prosperity to the area. The Southern Railway System laid its tracks from Charlotte to Atlanta in 1873 and Flowery Branch was officially established as a city the following year. Located on the shores of Lake Lanier, Flowery Branch has managed to maintain its hometown atmosphere.

Today, that same prosperity is evident in the revitalization of the old Flowery Branch downtown; from the old train depot with historic caboose, to quaint retail shops, to remarkable restaurants. Remarkably, the same desire that brought many to Flowery Branch so long ago has lured a new corporate identity to the area, with a strong desire to protect that cherished hometown feeling.

Maybe that is why Flowery Branch has been recognized in regional magazines with the new theme, "A remarkable past, a very bright future."

The benefits of the Flowery Branch community are assured by the city government, represented by a five member council and mayor. A clean environment, public safety, and managed growth are our first priority.

Attracting international business to the area and adding to the wealth of the community, we are now known as the home of the $20 million "Atlanta Falcons" training campus. The city is not surprised at the number of corporations making Flowery Branch their home.

If your time allows for a visit to the area - whether to enjoy boating or fishing on the pristine lake or to shop for that unique antique - we hope you will bring a little bit of your desires for past memories. We promise to send you back home with a thought of what once was and an understanding of what can be.