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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 .
Description: This map shows the incorporated and unincorporated areas in Stephens County, Georgia, highlighting Toccoa in red. It was created with a custom script with US Census Bureau data and modified with Inkscape.
Camp Toccoa (formerly Camp Toombs) was a basic training camp for United States Army paratroopers during World War II, located five miles (8 km) west of Toccoa, Georgia. Among the units to train at the camp was the 506th Infantry Regiment. The regiment's Company E ("Easy Company") was portrayed in the 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers.
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 ...
Toccoa was formerly a stop on the Airline Belle, which was a Southern Railway regional train between 1879 and 1931. Toccoa Airport is a small executive airport northeast of the town. The airport is sometimes referred to as R.G. LeTourneau Field as it was built by R.G. LeTourneau .
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".
North of Toccoa on Georgia State Route 184 34°38′26″N 83°17′17″W / 34.640556°N 83.288056°W / 34.640556; -83.288056 ( Riverside Toccoa
It also extended from SR 12 in Thomson, with no indication on the 1920 map as to whether it was concurrent with SR 12 between these segments to the South Carolina state line northeast of Toccoa. Between Royston and Toccoa, SR 17 took a more western path, through Canon and Carnesville, than it does today. At this time, an unnumbered road was ...