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The Toccoa River and Ocoee River are the names in use for a single 93-mile-long (150 km) [3] [better source needed] river that flows northwestward through the southern Appalachian Mountains of the southeastern United States. It is a tributary of the Hiwassee River, which it joins in Polk County, Tennessee, near the town of Benton. Three power ...
The Jarrett-Hayes House, also known as Liberty Lodge, in Stephens County, Georgia near Toccoa, is an I-house built around 1848. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1994. [1] It is a two-story plantation house built by slave labor, including for the making, on the property, of bricks used in its construction. [2]
It is managed by the Tennessee Valley Authority and is primarily fed by the Toccoa River. Blue Ridge Lake was created by the completion of Blue Ridge Dam and has approximately 60 miles (97 km) of shoreline and a flood storage capacity of 68,500 acre⋅ft (84,500 dam 3). The lake's levels fluctuate by about 20 feet (6.1 m) in a typical year.
Blue Ridge Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Toccoa River in Fannin County, in the U.S. state of Georgia. It is the uppermost of four dams on the Toccoa/Ocoee River owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority. The dam impounds the 3,300-acre (1,300 ha) Blue Ridge Lake on the southwestern fringe of the Blue Ridge Mountains. [1]
Toccoa is a city in far Northeast Georgia near the border with South Carolina.It is the county seat of Stephens County, Georgia, United States, [6] [7] located about 50 miles (80 km) from Athens and about 90 miles (140 km) northeast of Atlanta.
Logo of the Blue Ridge Scenic Railway Blue Ridge Scenic Railway train in Blue Ridge, Georgia.. The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway is a heritage railroad in northern Georgia.. Based in Blue Ridge, Georgia, United States it follows the former Marietta and North Georgia Railroad line along the Toccoa River north to McCaysville, Georgia, and its Twin city of Copperhill, Tennessee.
The Tugaloo River (originally Tugalo River) is a 45.9-mile-long (73.9 km) [1] river that forms part of the border between the U.S. states of Georgia and South Carolina.It was named for the historic Cherokee town of Tugaloo at the mouth of Toccoa Creek, south of present-day Toccoa, Georgia and Travelers Rest State Historic Site in Stephens County, Georgia.
Lake Toccoa is a reservoir in the U.S. state of Georgia, Stephens County, in the city of Toccoa. [ 1 ] Toccoa comes from the Cherokee word Ꮤꮖꭿ "Tagwâ′hĭ," meaning " Catawba place" [ 2 ] or "beautiful".