page_title: Toccoa, Georgia
section_title: Kelly Barnes Dam failure
hierarchical_section_title: Toccoa, Georgia / Kelly Barnes Dam failure
caption_attribution_description: English: Aerial view of Kelly Barnes Lake area -- looking downstream, dam was near the center of the photograph.
context_page_description: Toccoa is a city in, and the county seat of, Stephens County, Georgia, United States, located about 50 miles from Athens and about 90 miles northeast of Atlanta. The population was 8,491 as of the 2010 census.
context_section_description: On November 6, 1977, the Kelly Barnes Dam failed and released over 170 million gallons of water above the Toccoa Falls College campus. The failure killed 20 children and 19 adults.
caption: Kelly Barnes Lake after the dam break, 1977
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