Flowers for Kennesaw, GA

Kennesaw still answers to its railroad past. This was Big Shanty, the depot where the Union raiders stole the locomotive General in 1862 and set off the Great Locomotive Chase up the Western & Atlantic line — the engine sits a block off Main Street now, inside the Southern Museum, and the tracks still cut through downtown. What changed everything was the arrival of Kennesaw State University: 45,000 students turned a rail town into one of Cobb County's busiest addresses, and the flower calendar shows it. Move-in week, sorority bid day, finals, and May commencement each spike the campus orders, while the older side of town — the depot district, the churches, the neighborhoods off Old 41 — keeps a steady beat of birthday, anniversary, and get-well requests. The battlefield mountain rises just to the south, and Wellstar Kennestone in Marietta pulls a constant thread of hospital deliveries north.

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