Once upon a time many moons ago there lived in a beautiful valley in what is now northeast Georgia, a lovely Cherokee princess named Toccoa. One day, beautiful Toccoa met Wild Waters, the chief of a hostile tribe, at the foot of a high waterfall in Cherokee land. Never before had Toccoa seen such a […]

More than 500 students of Toccoa Falls entered the armed forces during World War II, and a number were killed in action. The school erected the stone gates and metal archway just below Fant Hall as a memorial to those who paid the supreme sacrifice. In 1942, wartime restrictions brought one change that later became […]