School consolidation hasn’t been an issue in Hall County for some time after the major mergers in the 1950s that created North Hall, East Hall and South Hall high schools from smaller high schools such as River Bend, Oakwood, Flowery Branch, Sardis, Lula or Clermont. Expansion over the years since has birthed West Hall, Chestatee and a new Flowery Branch. South Hall, meanwhile, was renamed Johnson High School in honor of Robert Wood Johnson, the Johnson & Johnson/Chicopee Manufacturing Corp. benefactor who donated thousands of acres for education purposes.