Rediscovering Indian Springs
For at least a hundred years, people connected with Toccoa Falls College have known the Cherokee Indians once walked on the land that now makes up the college’s campus. Many have found arrowheads, beads that were used for trading, and other artifacts. Over the years, we had heard rumors about a natural spring located off the lower road where people once stopped and got a drink of cool, fresh water before continuing on to the falls. A few years ago before her death, Mrs. Forrest’s niece Betty Rhinehart donated a photograph to the Toccoa Falls College archives that she said