Our intention for the next two weeks is to relax and enjoy the colors of nature starting to change. Today started with a casual drive in the Jeep to Toccoa Falls, GA. Toccoa Falls is a beautiful 186-foot-high waterfall, one of the tallest free-falling waterfalls east of the Mississippi River. It is located on the wooded campus of Toccoa Falls College. The short 100-yard path to the falls was easy to stroll along while enjoying the stream rushing over the rocks down..
Toccoa Falls is accessed through the gift shop which is open from 8:30 a.m. until sundown. A nominal admission fee to see the falls is collected in the gift shop. The Gate Cottage Gift Shop is worth walking through. it offers souvenirs of Toccoa Falls, furniture made in the area, crafts from local craftsmen, and other gift items.
Bonus: Toccoa Falls College has an old Sears Catalog home on the campus! Sears Catalog homes were sold in the early 1900's, they were ready-to-assemble kit houses sold through Sears, Roebuck and Company. More than 70,000 of these were sold in North America between 1908 and 1940, shipped via railroad boxcars, these kits included all the materials needed to build the house. A lady in the gift shop said it was used as the college president's home back in the day, but now it is used for storage.
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