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== Legacy ==
{{external media|video1=Shane Adkins wrote and here performs the song [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfgDV8ZpWBo#t=42 '''Three Cheers for Lily Flagg'''] chronicling the famous cow, recorded in 2014.}}
Lily Flagg was raised on Monte Sano Dairy in Northeast Huntsville, AL by descendants of the Chapman family. <ref>http://historyconnections.info/hh/hhpics/pdf/hhq1/HHQ-Vol-XV-3-Spr-89.pdf</ref> Her barn was on Dairy Lane in the northeast quadrant of the city but she has long been remembered with Lily Flagg villageVillage, south of Huntsville.<ref>{{cite book |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=xxUlAQAAIAAJ&pg=PA29&dq=%22lily+flagg%22&hl=en&ei=94JoTKzWFMP48Aa1wfmyBA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CD8Q6AEwBDgK#v=onepage&q=%22lily%20flagg%22&f=false |title=Bulletin - United States Geological Survey, Volume 274 |author=United States Geological Society |year=1906 |accessdate=15 August 2010}}</ref><ref name="sccc">{{cite web|url=http://www.springcity.org/sccc_history.html |title=Early History of the Spring City Cycling Club |author=James Record |date=2009-03-18 |accessdate=15 August 2010 |deadurl=yes |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/20090804142252/http://www.springcity.org:80/sccc_history.html |archivedate=August 4, 2009 }}</ref> {{Coord|34.65489|-86.56626|region:US-AL_type:city(5000)}} The area was known for its cotton production and featured the Lily Flagg Gin. The community won a state prize of $2000 for its one-variety cotton program in 1948.<ref>{{cite book |title=American Cooperation |year=1955 |publisher=American Institute of Cooperation, Extension and Research Workshop, Land Grant Conference on Farmer Cooperatives |page=683 |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=XTkhAQAAIAAJ&q=%22lily+flagg%22+cotton&dq=%22lily+flagg%22+cotton&hl=en&ei=_DBrTKGTOMOC8gaYt8CyAg&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=4&ved=0CD0Q6AEwAzgK |accessdate=2010-08-17}}</ref> With the [[Space Race]]-fueled local population boom in the 1950s and 1960s, the village was annexed into Huntsville. Many establishments, a street, neighborhood, and apartment complex in the area are named for the cow.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.google.com/search?rlz=1C1GGLS_enUS348US348&aq=f&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8&q=lily+flagg |title=Google search for "Lily Flagg" |date=2010-08-15 |publisher=Google |accessdate=15 August 2010}}</ref> The area swim team is the Lily Flagg Cows.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://photos.al.com/huntsville-times/2010/07/cow_appreciation_day_2.html |title=Cow Appreciation Day |author=Dave Dieter |date=2010-07-09 |work=The Huntsville Times |accessdate=15 August 2010}}</ref> Lily Flagg Milk Stout is brewed in Huntsville.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.straighttoale.com/beers/?beer=1c0c92 |title=Lily Flagg Milk Stout |author=Straight to Ale |publisher=Straight to Ale |accessdate=August 16, 2010}}</ref>
An eponymous book fictionalizes the account of the cow and the surrounding hoopla.<ref>{{cite book |title=Lily Flagg |last=Gilbreath |first=Doris Benefield |year= 2001 |publisher=Gilbreath Publications |location=Huntsville, Alabama |isbn=978-0-935515-43-5 |pages= 62 }}</ref>
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