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 20^th 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.