If you love great hot dogs, like I do, your going to love Sosebee’s in downtown Toccoa, right on Doyle street.  Founded in 1921 by the grandfather of the current owner, they have a special recipe for the chili sauce that’s been passed down through the family.  When you stop by make sure to order it “all the way”.  It doesn’t get any better.  Make sure and tell them Scott from Currahee Club sent you.  They’re great folks.

Downtown Toccoa has recently attracted a wonderful new business, Hall Manor Mercantile & Gallery. Located in the newly renovated “Allgood Building” at 11 North Sage Street, the business is owned by Patrick & Marilyn Hall, formerly of Atlanta.

Open Wednesday through Saturday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., the store features gorgeous locally handcrafted furniture and accessories. And beginning in September, classes will be offered in Welsh Quilting and Wool Fall Motif Pillows.

An added opportunity for fun and recreation will be Ladies Night Out the third Thursday of each month from 7-9 p.m. During these sessions, participants will enjoy making new friends, learning a variety of crafts and leaving with a finished product.  For more information, call Marilyn at 706-827-0013.

Toccoa, Georgia – Every five years, Blue Ridge Country magazine readers vote on their favorite places to eat, overnight, hike, bike, camp, wildlife watch and more.  This year, Currahee Military Museum was voted second, Gold in the category of Museums. Platinum was awarded to Museum of Appalachia, in Tennessee. 

The award winners are featured in the July/August issue of Blue Ridge Country, which celebrates the magazine’s 20th anniversary.  Reader votes were submitted through mailed paper ballots and the magazines website.

Currahee Military Museum is located at the restored ninety year old train depot, historic downtown Toccoa. The museum’s objective is a tribute to 17,000 paratroopers that trained in Toccoa during WWII.  Focal exhibit is a restored seventy foot horse stable, built 1922, Aldbourne, England.  Camp Toccoa paratroopers were housed in the stable before and after tine invasion of Normandy. The stable was dissembled flown to the United States and reconstructed in Toccoa in 2005.

The museum also has exhibits on the history of Stephens County, showcasing life for the last 100 years.

Toccoa was also selected in the Best Places to Go category, Gold in a tie with Abingdon, Virginia for antique shopping.

Blue Ridge County, produced by Leisure Publishing Company in Roanoke, VA, is a bimonthly magazine with the readership of 425,000.  It covers the mountains of nine states from Maryland to Alabama.  Established in 1988, the publication has won state, regional, national and international awards for writing, design and editing.

Please make plans to visit the museum and Toccoa, for more information please call 706-282-5055.