Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in McCaysville, GA

McCaysville is a city in Fannin County in the north Georgia mountains, set directly on the Georgia-Tennessee state line.

McCaysville is the twin city of Copperhill, Tennessee — the two towns form a single community split by the state line, which runs diagonally through the street grid.

The river flowing through town is called the Toccoa River on the Georgia side and becomes the Ocoee River the moment it crosses into Tennessee at the state line in the middle of town.

A blue line painted across the main street marks the state line, letting visitors stand with one foot in Georgia and one foot in Tennessee.

McCaysville was chartered in 1904, growing up as a railroad and mining town for the Copper Basin, where copper was discovered in 1843 and mined until the late 1980s.

The 2020 census counted 1,149 residents in McCaysville, making it the second-largest city in Fannin County after Blue Ridge, the county seat about 11 miles south.

Before European settlement, the McCaysville area was inhabited by the Cherokee people and other Indigenous peoples for thousands of years.

The Blue Ridge Scenic Railway carries passengers on a 26-mile round trip along the Toccoa River from Blue Ridge to McCaysville, where riders get a layover to explore both twin towns.

McCaysville's riverside green spaces include McCaysville City Park and Horseshoe Bend Park, both set along the banks of the Toccoa River.

In the early morning hours of February 16, 1990, a massive flood struck McCaysville and Copperhill, one of the defining disasters in the twin towns' history.