As railroads were reconstructed after the Civil War, a junction of north-south and east-west lines was established along the Alabama-Florida border near the confluence of Big Escambia Creek and the Conecuh-Escambia River, and a settlement grew there that was first called Reuterville for Major Reuter, who on April 9, 1872, drove the last spikes joining the railroads. The community was also known as Pensacola Junction, the Junction, and Whiting, until the Post Office asked citizens for a permanent name and they combined the first three letters of Florida with the last two letters of Alabama to form Floma; to avoid confusion with Florala, the Post Office added ton, meaning town, creating Flomaton. The Town of Flomaton was incorporated on May 18, 1908. As an important rail junction, Flomaton was visited by Presidents Theodore Roosevelt in 1905, Woodrow Wilson in 1919, and Calvin Coolidge in 1930, as well as future President Lyndon Johnson during a 1960 campaign, and outlaws including Rube Burrow, Railroad Bill, John Wesley Hardin, and Brown Bowen also passed through. During World War I, Flomaton resident Corporal Sidney E. Manning received the Congressional Medal of Honor for heroism in France and was named by General Pershing as one of his Immortal Ten; he refused a monument in his hometown during his lifetime, saying, I did no more than those who came back and a lot less than those who did not. Over the years, Flomaton has benefited from its role as a rail center, serving as a gateway to the Gulf Coast and continuing to develop through timber, sand, gravel, oil, and natural gas.