Need mitigation services? Southern Signature Group in Buford provides water and fire damage restoration to protect your home.
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Southern Signature Group has been serving Buford, GA, and the wider Gwinnett County area for 10+ years. Our skilled team specializes in water damage restoration, fire damage restoration, and mold remediation. We use high-tech equipment and proven techniques to make sure your property is safe and secure.
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Mitigation is critical to prevent extensive damage and costly repairs. At Southern Signature Group, we specialize in water mitigation, fire damage restoration, and mold removal. Our emergency water damage restoration services are designed to address issues promptly and efficiently. Trust us to protect your home in Buford, GA, and the greater Gwinnett County area. Call 678-765-8808 today for assistance.
Buford appears in historical records beginning in the early 19th century. The area that is now Buford was originally part of Cherokee territory. Despite the treaty in 1817 that ceded the territory to the United States and Gwinnett County’s legislative establishment in 1818, the area was still largely inhabited by the Cherokee until the 1830s. The first non-Native Americans moved to the Buford area in the late 1820s or early 1830s, although the Buford area was not largely settled by them until the 1860s.
During the post-Civil War construction of the extended Richmond and Danville Railroad System in 1865, railroad stockholders Thomas Garner and Larkin Smith purchased land around the railroad’s right-of-way and began developing the city of Buford. The city was named after Algernon Sidney Buford, who was president of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway during the railroad’s construction. The town began rapidly expanding around the railway after its completion in 1871, and it was incorporated as the Town of Buford on August 24, 1872, and renamed the City of Buford in 1896.
In the late 1800s and early 1900s Buford became widely known for its leather production, becoming prominently associated with the leather industry and earning the nickname “The Leather City”. Buford became a large producer of leather products, including saddles, horse collars, bridles, and shoes. Buford’s leather industry began with a leatherworker named R.H. Allen opening a harness shop and tannery in 1868, three years before the completion of the railway and the founding of Buford. R.H. Allen’s brother Bona Allen moved to Buford from Rome, Georgia, in 1872 and founded the Bona Allen Company the following year. The leather industry quickly became the city’s largest industry despite setbacks from several fires, including a fire in 1903 that destroyed the buildings of several businesses and a fire in 1906 that destroyed a straw storehouse and nearly destroyed the city’s harness and horse collar factory.
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