Business and Industry

a family-owned and operated business that has been serving the Flowery Branch community for over 20 years. They offer a wide variety of bait and tackle, as well as fishing licenses and other fishing supplies. They also have a gas station and convenience store. — Service Station and Bait Shop in Flowery Branch, Georgia near the Old Federal Campground and Day Use Park

Development around Lake Lanier brought new kinds of businesses to the area and provided jobs for locals.

Virginia Saine: “It brought other people in, chances to meet new people, new businesses, new ideas that we had not had before. I can remember my first pizza and my first Mexican food and Chinese food and all that because none of it was available when I was growing up.”

Alan Wayne: “On Lights Ferry Road, just before you go into Aqualand Marina, [Mr. Hamner] built a restaurant and it was called the Fish and Fiddle. … It was one of the first restaurants dedicated to Lake Lanier as a lakeside.”

Wayne Hill explains how the area changed and developed after Lake Lanier.