"Gourd Girls" is a moniker given by the local people of Cleveland, Georgia, to two women, Priscilla Wilson and Janice Lymburner, who began to grow, harvest, and craft gourds on Yonah Mountain in White County, Georgia, in the summer of 1976. Lymburner and Wilson purchased their land in 1977 and, by 1983, opened a shop and gourd crafting museum. As of 2023, they still operate The Gourd Place and live together on the same property in northeast Georgia. Priscilla Wilson and Janice Lymburner moved in together as roommates in March of 1974. The two women confessed to having romantic feelings for one another in September of 1974 and soon began a relationship. The couple lived in secret for the next seven years until coming out to close friends in 1982. They shared their relationship with their respective parents in 1992.

Lymburner and Wilson made their relationship public to the local community and to their church, the congregation of the Nacoochee Presbyterian Church, in 1993. On September 20, 2015, Lymburner and Wilson were legally married in the State of Georgia following the 2015 Supreme Court ruling in Obergefell, et al v. Hodges. Priscilla Wilson was born in Valdosta, Georgia, on September 27, 1950. Janice Lymburner was born in Atlanta on November 24, 1946. Wilson is a former Lumpkin County High School English teacher and Lymburner is a former White County elementary school teacher. In 1974, the two women were driving near Highlands, North Carolina, when Lymburner wanted to stop at a roadside stand to buy a gourd to make a planter for her mother. Neither woman knew at the time that this would change their lives. After four years of farming and crafting, they received an order from the Neiman-Marcus' display designer for 28 decorated gourd containers to be used at the store in Atlanta.

Their crafted gourds have been featured in both national and international publications and consist of ornaments, pottery, and toys, as well as other products. In 2000, Priscilla Wilson invented a technique for slip-casting pottery that used gourds for which she received a U.S. patent in 2006.