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Toccoa Creek is a
stream A stream is a continuous body of water, body of surface water Current (stream), flowing within the stream bed, bed and bank (geography), banks of a channel (geography), channel. Depending on its location or certain characteristics, a strea ...
in the
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of
Georgia Georgia most commonly refers to: * Georgia (country), a country in the South Caucasus * Georgia (U.S. state), a state in the southeastern United States Georgia may also refer to: People and fictional characters * Georgia (name), a list of pe ...
. Toccoa Creek carries Toccoa Falls, a waterfall. ''Toccoa'' comes from the
Cherokee The Cherokee (; , or ) people are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States. Prior to the 18th century, they were concentrated in their homelands, in towns along river valleys of what is now southwestern ...
word "Tagwâ′hĭ," meaning "beautiful" or " Catawba place."


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Rivers of Georgia (U.S. state) Rivers of Habersham County, Georgia Rivers of Stephens County, Georgia Georgia (U.S. state) placenames of Native American origin {{GeorgiaUS-river-stub