Tallulah Falls School

Built in 1909. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992.

From the record

“Tallulah Falls School is a private boarding and day school located in the town of Tallulah Falls, Georgia, United States, within Habersham and Rabun Counties. The school is located on a wooded campus in northeast Georgia on the southern slopes of Cherokee Mountain at the foothills of the Appalachian chain.”
Wikipedia article Tallulah Falls School, CC BY-SA 4.0.

One of 37 National Register listings published here for Habersham County · listed in 1992 · category: District · built in 1909.

Sources: the Wikipedia article · the case file at the National Archives · the National Register database, National Park Service

The listing

Address. Jct. of US 441 and Tallulah School Rd., Tallulah Falls, 30523
When was it listed? January 1992
Category. district
Census division. Turnerville
When was it built? 1909
National Register reference number. 91002026 - the number the National Park Service assigned this property when it was listed, and the key its nomination file is catalogued under at the National Archives.

Fires near this property

111 since 1992

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal wildfire occurrence database lists 111 fires within 5 miles of Tallulah Falls School between 1992 and 2020, burning about 768 acres in total. 15 started naturally. 14 were recorded as arson. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a fire counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Reported cause	Fires
Debris and open burning	56
Natural	15
Arson/incendiarism	14
Missing data/not specified/undetermined	13
Power generation/transmission/distribution	6
Equipment and vehicle use	3
Recreation and ceremony	3
Fireworks	1

The most recent of them, most recent first, with the day each was reported and the service that recorded it.

Date	Cause	Size	Reported by	Name on the report
23 September 2015	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	1.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	COMMUNITY LANE
23 September 1999	Natural	3.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	Y CAMP
10 September 2007	Missing data/not specified/undetermined	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	not named
30 August 2011	Debris and open burning	under an acre	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2012-HABERSHAM-001
24 July 2008	Natural	92 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	KING
24 July 2001	Debris and open burning	2.5 acres	Georgia Forestry Commission	FY2002-HABERSHAM-001
2 July 1996	Natural	4.0 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	FALLS
19 July 2006	Arson/incendiarism	3.4 acres	Chattahoochee-Oconee National Forest	CAR

Every fire recorded in Habersham County

Mines and quarries near this property

3 within 5 miles

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The federal mineral resources record lists 3 workings within 5 miles of Tallulah Falls School: 1 occurrence, 1 past producer, 1 prospect. None of them still produces. What was taken out: Iron, Gold, Marble, Dimension. Distance is straight-line from the map coordinates, so a quarry counted here may appear on a neighbouring settlement's page as well.

Site	Commodity	Status	Recorded
Henckel Mine	Gold	Past Producer
Marble Prospect	Marble, Dimension	Prospect
Panther Creek Prospect	Iron	Occurrence	Pyrrhotite

Every working recorded in Habersham County

Storms near this property

15 since 1997

Regional context, not property-specific evidence. The National Weather Service names Tallulah Falls, the town this property stands in, in 15 storm reports between 1997 and 2021: 9 hail, 6 thunderstorm wind. No death or injury is recorded in these reports. Each account below is quoted exactly as the forecast office filed it, from the NOAA Storm Events Database, and each date opens the federal record of that event.

When	Event	Place named	Harm	What the report says
March 2021	Thunderstorm Wind	Tallulah Falls	-	Public reported numerous trees blown down in Tallulah Falls.
June 2013	Thunderstorm Wind	Tallulah Falls	-	Multiple trees were blown down in the Tallulah Falls area, with one tree on a house.
April 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tallulah Falls	-	Report of 3 to 4 inch diameter tree limbs down.
April 2003	Hail	Tallulah Falls	-	Hail covered the ground.
August 2007	Hail	Tallulah Falls	-	no account filed
May 2006	Thunderstorm Wind	Tallulah Falls	-	no account filed
May 2006	Hail	Tallulah Falls	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Tallulah Falls	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Tallulah Falls	-	no account filed
April 2003	Hail	Tallulah Falls	-	no account filed
September 2000	Thunderstorm Wind	Tallulah Falls	-	no account filed
May 1998	Hail	Tallulah Falls	-	no account filed
July 1997	Thunderstorm Wind	Tallulah Falls	-	no account filed
July 1997	Hail	Tallulah Falls	-	no account filed
June 1997	Hail	Tallulah Falls	-	no account filed

Every storm recorded in Habersham County

Map coverage status

No historic map-sheet match is published for this property yet. That does not mean no map exists. This record needs a coordinate-quality review before it can be joined to a sheet boundary. Browse the county's mapped places while that work is pending.

Listed places nearby

2 within 8 miles

Other National Register properties close enough to walk or drive between, ordered by distance from this one. Both positions come from the same geocoding pass that matched these properties to their map sheets.

Photograph	Property	Distance	Listed
	Glen-Ella Springs Hotel	3.2 miles	1990
	Acoa	7.1 miles	1982

Sources for this property

National Archives record	The nomination case file for reference 91002026 in Record Group 79.
Wikipedia article	Community-written account of this property, licensed CC BY-SA.
Habersham County	All 37 listed properties in this county.

Provenance

Listing record. National Park Service National Register of Historic Places, listed-properties dataset, current to 2026-05-22.
Map join. Address geocoded through the United States Census geocoder, then tested against the published boundary of every sheet in the USGS Historical Topographic Map Collection.
How this page is made. Listing fields come from federal records; map-sheet coverage is a labelled coordinate-to-boundary calculation, not a source-field claim.
Wildfire. Short, Karen C. 2022. Spatial wildfire occurrence data for the United States, 1992-2020 [FPA_FOD_20221014]. 6th Edition. Fort Collins, CO: Forest Service Research Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.2737/RDS-2013-0009.6 Collected with United States Government funding and usable without additional permissions or fees.
Mines and quarries. USGS Mineral Resources Data System (MRDS) https://mrdata.usgs.gov/mrds/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105.
Storms. NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information, Storm Events Database https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/stormevents/ A work of the United States government, no copyright under 17 U.S.C. 105. Narratives are quoted verbatim from the National Weather Service report and are not edited or summarised.