Tallulah Falls Map
Tallulah Falls is a town in Habersham and Rabun counties in the U.S. state of Georgia near the Tallulah River. The population was 164 at the 2000 census. It started out in the 1880s as a tourist town for the multitude of visitors to Tallulah Falls.
Although tourism promoters in the late 19th century described the word Tallulah as meaning "loud waters" in Cherokee, it actually has no meaning in that language. The most likely source of the word is from the Creek Indians who inhabited the area until the early 1700s, and built the many mounds in the Southern Highlands. The word talula means "town" or "district administrative center" in the Hitchiti language that was spoken by most Creek Indians in Georgia and the Carolinas. A typical talula had at least one mound, which was a platform for the house of a regional admninstrator.
Tallulah Falls was the filming location for portions of the movie Deliverance.
Nearby cities include Clarkesville, Toccoa, Mountain City, Demorest, Dillard.