In the early 1900s the Georgia Railway & Power Company(currently known as Georgia Power) built a series of dams along the Tallulah & Tugalo rivers between what was at the time the boundary between Habersham County and Rabun County. The damns themselves are a series of six ‘stairstep dams’ and are among the first large, integrated hydroelectric systems in North America. The site on the Tallulah River(which is where four out of the six dams lay) was chosen due to the fact the Tallulah River has the greatest velocity out of any river in the eastern United States. This North Georgia Hydro Project once was the largest producer of power in the state of Georgia and are accredited to being key in Atlanta’s rapid growth in the 1900s. Now, they only operate at peak power supply. However, these six damns are capable of producing 166 megawatts, and supply enough energy to over 100,000 homes. There is often a seventh plant that is closely associated with this project, that plant is the Estatoah Dam in Dillard, GA. This plant was not however built by the Georgia Railway and Power Company but by the city of Dillard itself. The plant, known as the Rabun Land and Water Company at the time, this plant brought electricity to north Rabun for the first time, and continued to server the community for decades until it was purchased by Georgia Power Company in 1960. Georgia Power still owns & operates all 6 of the plants to this very day, and keeps all plants open to the public for recreation.
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