After two years of fund raising and planning we opened the

doors to two new museums in March 2006,  

Stephens County History Museum

and

Currahee Military Museum

Stephens County Historical Society

     160 N. Alexander Street   

706-282-5055

            Make plans to attend this special museum that holds military history for our local

Veterans, Civil War, WWI and WWII. With focus on the Paratrooper Infantry Regiment that

 trained at Camp Toccoa in the early 1940's.

Over 17,000 men trained at the camp which included the

 506th, 501st 511th,511th,517th and  295th Ordnance Heavy Maintenance Company.

  We are still researching other groups that were here during that time

and after the last regiment left in 1944.

     A featured exhibit is a horse stable the was home to some the 506th's Company Able and Company Easy,  Easy Company now  known as the Band of Brothers. On display are personal letters and documentation of the last David Kenyon Webster who describes the stable's solitude that the men were able to enjoy while stationed in England.  The stable, originally located on a farm  west of  England,  in the small village of Aldbourne, was disassembled by Keith Sowerby and a team of workers,  palletized by the RAF  and transported to Dobbins Air Base in Marietta Georgia,  on a C-17 Globemaster III by  the Mississippi Air National Guard, 172nd Airlift Wing at Allen C. Thompson Field, Mississippi. The stable was then transported to Toccoa, where  it was  reassembled at its location, a  new Museum site in downtown Toccoa  in October in 2005.

    Chris Anderson editor of WWII magazine,  head the project, stresses this is a major project that is a  tribute  to the memory of Camp Toccoa and the Men that trained there during the 1940's.

    Funds are still needed for Currahee Military Museum,  as we still are in need of display cabinets, mannequins, lighting, audio and video equipment,  permanent descriptions for exhibits, landscaping, a museum is never finished. If  you are interested in helping with some of these items, please contact the the society.