Toccoa in Stephens County, Georgia — The American South (South Atlantic)

Reverend Andrew Cauthen Craft and Susan Blake Craft

Photographed by Brian Scott, February 14, 2013

1. Reverend Andrew Cauthen Craft and Susan Blake Craft Monument

Inscription. In Loving Appreciation
of Reverend Andrew Cauthen Craft
and
Susan Blake craft
Founders of
Toccoa Orphanage in 1911.

Thirty years with God's Providence
he was a father to the fatherless and
she was a mother to the motherless of
fourteen hundred homeless children.

Erected 1958 by Children of the Home and Their Families in Toccoa.

Topics. This historical marker is listed in this topic list: Charity & Public Work. A significant historical year for this entry is 1911.

Location. 34° 34.767′ N, 83° 19.8′ W. Marker is in Toccoa, Georgia, in Stephens County. It is at the intersection of North Sage Street and East Doyle Street, on the right when traveling south on North Sage Street. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Toccoa GA 30577, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this marker is in Georgia’s Mountains. It is also in the American South,

specifically in the Deep South,

in Appalachia,

and specifically in Southern Appalachia. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically,

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it finds itself in what was once the original Cherokee Nation,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

Other nearby markers. At least 10 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Kelly Barnes Dam Break Monument (here, next to this marker); Belk-Gallant Building (a few steps from this marker); Bank of Toccoa (within shouting distance of this marker); Stephens County Confederate Monument (within shouting distance of this marker); Andrews-Hamby Men's Store (within shouting distance of this marker); Green's Bargain Annex (within shouting distance of this marker); Harper's 5 and 10 Cent Store (within shouting distance of this marker); Nickel Back (within shouting distance of this marker); McNeely & Company (within shouting distance of this marker); Toccoa Korean War Monument (within shouting distance of this marker). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Toccoa.

Also see . . . The House of Many Rooms: History of Toccoa Orphanage and Its Founders. This book is a fascinating true story of a

Photographed by Brian Scott, February 14, 2013

2. Reverend Andrew Cauthen Craft and Susan Blake Craft Monument

caring couple who became parents to fourteen hundred homeless children over a period of thirty years. (Submitted on February 15, 2013, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.)

Additional commentary.
1. Toccoa Orphanage, 1940 Description
Franklin Street, an undenominational institution, was founded in 1911 when the Reverend A.C. Craft opened his house to homeless children. Since then the orphanage, supported entirely by private donations, has grown until it now houses seventy-five children in seven frame buildings. Ninety acres of land are cultivated in food crops. (Source: Georgia: A Guide to Its Towns and Countryside, 1940.)

— Submitted February 15, 2013, by Brian Scott of Anderson, South Carolina.

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