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During the 1940s the library was officially designated the Toccoa-Stephens County Public
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and first sponsored by the Toccoa Woman's Club on May 1, 1937. Initially the library was housed in a section of the local high school until it was moved after one year into space made available in the Woman's clubhouse. The
Kiwanis Club and United Daughters of the Confederacy, as well as the Stephens
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Northeast Georgia Regional Library System began with the Clarkesville Library established in 1928. This library, as well as its sister county library (the Cornelia branch), joined alongside the Stephens County Library Program to create the Habersham-Stephens Regional Library System
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The White County library joined in 1951, and with the introduction of White County the name of the library system was changed to its present form. In 1956 Rabun County joined the system, and a decade later, in 1966, the City of Toccoa joined. The current system has been made up of the same libraries
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