Editing Toccoa, Georgia (section)

==Arts and culture==

=== Annual events ===
Annual events include the Currahee Military Weekend, the Ida Cox Music Series, Toast of Toccoa, Summer Movies at the Ritz, Costume Parade, Harvest Festival, ChristmasFest, and Christmas Parade.

=== Music ===
Toccoa is the home of a regional orchestra. The Toccoa Symphony Orchestra<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.toccoasymphony.org/|title=Toccoa Symphony Orchestra|website=toccoa-symphony|language=en|access-date=2019-04-01|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401132520/https://www.toccoasymphony.org/|url-status=live}}</ref> is made up of volunteer musicians from the surrounding community, in [[South Carolina]], and [[Georgia (U.S. state)|Georgia]]. The symphony exists to provide quality symphonic music to the region and to bring together musicians from throughout northeast Georgia.

The symphony was founded in 1977 by Pinkie Craft Ware and Archie Sharretts, both music educators. Since its founding, the symphony has performed at least three concerts every season. It is supported by a board of directors and an extensive network of patrons.

The orchestra collaborates with many musicians and provides a wide range of concert experiences. The ensemble has premiered works by young composers, presents a yearly Christmas concert with a one hundred voice choir,<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.onlineathens.com/article/20111126/LIFESTYLE/311269979|title=Toccoa Symphony Orchestra holds annual Christmas concert|website=Athens Banner-Herald|language=en|access-date=2019-04-01|archive-date=April 1, 2019|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190401132427/https://www.onlineathens.com/article/20111126/LIFESTYLE/311269979|url-status=live}}</ref> and incorporates budding performers from nearby Toccoa Falls College.

The rock band [[Luxury (Georgia band)|Luxury]] originated in Toccoa, at Toccoa Falls College, in the early 1990s.

===Miles Through Time Automotive Museum===
The Miles Through Time Automotive Museum was a co-op style automotive museum in a restored 1939 dealership but has moved to Clarkesville, GA in Habersham County.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Miles Through Time Automotive Museum Georgia's Co-Op Auto Museum|url=https://milesthroughtime.com/|access-date=2021-10-20|website=Miles Through Time Automotive Museum|language=en-US|archive-date=May 30, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170530210130/http://www.milesthroughtime.com/|url-status=live}}</ref>  There are over 100 years of automotive history on display. Vehicles can be stored, listed on consignment, for sale by owner or donated and everything is displayed as museum exhibits.

===Currahee Military Museum===
[[File:Currahee museum.jpg|right|thumb|Currahee Military Museum]]
The Currahee Military Museum, located in downtown Toccoa at the original train station where arriving [[G.I. (military)|GI]]s would disembark, is dedicated to the [[paratrooper]]s of [[World War II]] who trained at [[Camp Toccoa]]. Camp Toccoa was located just outside the city proper, at the foot of [[Currahee Mountain]], and was formerly known as Camp Toombs. The museum houses the original [[Aldbourne]] stables where [[paratrooper]]s of the [[101st Airborne Division]] were housed temporarily in England in 1944.

Only one building remains of the original Camp Toccoa. The building is believed to be a former food supply storage facility, based on its position near the former camp's gates and the foundation's construction. It was donated to the museum in 2011 by the Milliken company, which was using it as a machine shop. The museum intends to restore the building, along with the surrounding grounds.

===Annual Currahee Challenge===
On the first Saturday of every October, a six-mile race is held along the Colonel Sink Trail, the same trail used by the paratroopers as part of their training for combat. Known as one of the most daunting races in America. The common refrain is "Three Miles Up And Three Miles Down."  The race is part of the Currahee Military Weekend, which features World War II [[military reenactment]]s in a staged military camp, weapons demonstrations, book signings by veterans, a parade through the downtown historic district, a hangar dance at the airport, and a special [[banquet]] featuring keynote speakers and veterans.

===Ritz Theatre===
The Ritz Theatre is a restored 1939 art deco movie theater, located in the Downtown Toccoa Historic District at 139 Doyle Street. It is an active venue for a variety of entertainment. [[File:Ritz Theatre Toccoa.jpg|thumb|Ritz Theatre]]

===Other points of interest===
"Born from fire, and twice rebuilt from ashes, Downtown Toccoa's Albemarle Hotel has witnessed Toccoa's growth, and its struggles, for more than 100 years." The current building, dating from the 1930s, retains some of the previous structure.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.connectlocal.news/post/the-albemarle-hotel-toccoa-s-phoenix |title=The Albemarle Hotel – Toccoa's Phoenix |access-date=February 23, 2020 |archive-date=February 23, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200223203208/https://www.connectlocal.news/post/the-albemarle-hotel-toccoa-s-phoenix |url-status=live }}</ref> For many years, it was known as the Alexander Apartments. The hotel is located in the Downtown Toccoa Historic District, and is on the National Register of Historic Places.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://vanishingnorthgeorgia.com/2014/05/17/hotel-albermarle-1924-toccoa/ |title=Albermarle Hotel |access-date=January 19, 2020 |archive-date=November 30, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201130075446/https://vanishingnorthgeorgia.com/2014/05/17/hotel-albermarle-1924-toccoa/ |url-status=live }}</ref>[[File:Albermarle Hotel.jpg|thumb|Albermarle Hotel]]