TRAVEL BACK IN TIME

When you take a stroll through Downtown Toccoa, you may notice these beautiful bronze plaques located on some of the buildings. Take a look, and you’ll see that each plaque represents the history of the earliest known business, as well as a few details on the owner, architecture, or other facet unique to the structure.

We are proud to have a progressive historic plaque program offered through Main Street Toccoa. Featuring nearly sixty plaques (as of 2019), each plaque is supplemented by a 40-page full-color professionally published Historic Plaque Walking Guide.

Each plaque referenced in the guide features particular tidbits of information about the historic structures themselves, relating to building construction, materials used, tenants over the years, and much more.

Currahee Military Museum is a very unique museum, filled with the history of WWII Paratroopers that trained at Camp Toccoa at Currahee Mountain.

The stories of the men who fought with newly formed

Parachute Infantry Regiments 506th, 501st, 511th and 517th Parachute Regiment Combat Team have been told in hundreds of books and movies over the years. Their training and military fighting in the European and Pacific Campaigns have been featured in movies such as HBO’s Band of Brothers, Saving Private Ryan, Airborne Creed, and The Dirty Dozen, officially known as Toccoa Men, The Filthy Thirteen. Featured exhibit is an original horse stable from Aldbourne,

England that was used as housing before and after D-Day 1944 by Able and Easy Companies, 506th. The stable, 70 feet long, is located inside the museum and showcases each of the regiments that trained in Toccoa. Also in display is Toccoa and Stephens County’s rich local history. It is a quality museum on display in a beautifully restored train depot, located in Downtown Toccoa.