Tallulah Falls is a town in Habersham and Rabun counties in the U.S. state of Georgia near the Tallulah River. The population was 199 at the 2020 census.
History
The Georgia General Assembly incorporated Tallulah Falls as a town in 1885. The community took its name from a nearby waterfall on the Tallulah River, which today is submerged beneath the waters of Tallulah Falls Lake.
Geography
According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 8.6 square miles (22.1 km), of which 8.1 square miles (21.1 km) is land and 0.4 square mile (1.0 km) (4.68%) is water. U.S. Highway 23-441, one of the principal thoroughfares into the Blue Ridge and Great Smoky Mountains, bisects the town.
Demographics
As of the census
Hollywood actress Tallulah Bankhead was named after her paternal grandmother, who in turn was named after Tallulah Falls.
Notable people
- Ella Thomas Foreacre Brantley (1864–1948), President, Georgia Federation of Women's Clubs