1838 Cherokee Removal & Trail of TearsIn May 1836, the United States Senate ratified the Treaty of New Echota by the margin of a single vote and set in motion the forcible removal of the C... [click for more]
Battle of Chattanooga ~ Nov. 23 - 25, 1863[First Tablet]
Battle of Chattanooga
Nov. 23 - 25, 1863.
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Gen. Grant had ... [click for more]
Battle of Chattanooga, 1st Day, Nov. 23 November 23d, 1863, under instructions from Gen. Grant to ascertain whether the Confederates still occupied the valley, Gen. Thomas disposed forces i... [click for more]
Battle of Chattanooga, 2d Day, Nov. 24.During the night of Nov. 23, 1863, Gen. Sherman crossed the Tennessee at the mouth of the Chickamauga, under orders to carry the north end of Missiona... [click for more]
Battle of Chattanooga, 3d Day, Nov. 25.During the night of Nov. 24, 1863, Bragg's forces withdrew from the plain and Lookout and joined those on Missionary Ridge, occupying it from Rossvill... [click for more]
Battle of Lookout Mountain ~ Nov. 24, 1863Nov. 24, 1863 Two miles south, over 3000 Federal troops crossed Lookout Creek in thick fog at dawn. They lined up from the creek to base of cliffs abo... [click for more]
Battle of WauhatchieTwo and a half miles (in the direction the arrow points). Here three brigades of Hood's Division, Army of Tennessee, under Brigadier General Micah Jen... [click for more]
Bessie Smith ~ 1894-1937Born in Chattanooga to black parents, her great talent and determination earned her the title Empress of the Blues. Death came in a tragic automobile ... [click for more]
Bonny OaksBonny Oaks is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Brainerd Junior HighBrainerd Junior High is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR ... [click for more]
Brown’s FerryAbout 3.3 miles north, near the route of the Great War and Trading Path, John Brown, a Cherokee half-breed, established a ferry and tavern in 1800. It... [click for more]
Cameron HillNamed for James Cameron, a Scottish artist who lived there and painted in the neighborhood during the decade prior to the Civil War. Confederate force... [click for more]
Camp RossTo the east, at the mouth of Chattanooga Creek, was this supply base for Tennessee troops during the Creek War of 1812-13. The river here forms Moccas... [click for more]
Carver Memorial HospitalCarver Memorial, a hospital for Negroes, opened on June 18, 1947, in the Old West Ellis Hospital Building. Named for George Washington Carver, this he... [click for more]
Central Block BuildingCentral Block Building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Chattanooga Bank BuildingChattanooga Bank Building is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR ... [click for more]
Chattanooga Car BarnsChattanooga Car Barns is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Chattanooga Choo ChooIt was on March 5, 1880, that the first passenger train leaving Cincinnati for Chattanooga was nichnamed the Chattanooga Choo-Choo.... [click for more]
Chattanooga Creek Picket LinesChattanooga Creek Picket Lines
Soldier's Truces
? Chattanooga Campaign ?
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Chattanooga Daily RebelEstablished on this site, Aug. 2, 1862, by Franc M. Paul, it was published in three states, five towns and, for several months, in a boxcar traveling ... [click for more]
Chattanooga Electric RailwayChattanooga Electric Railway is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR ... [click for more]
Chattanooga Golf and Country ClubIn 1896, the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club was founded by several men who were introduced to golf in the North and in Britain. The oldest course a... [click for more]
Chattanooga National CemeteryChattanooga National Cemetery is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesCivil War Era National Cemeteries MPS... [click for more]
Chattanooga Public LibraryChattanooga Public Library opened in 1905 at the corner of Georgia Avenue and East Eighth Street, in a building given by Andrew Carnegie and furnished... [click for more]
Chattanooga VillageChattanooga Creek runs nearby. Near its mouth, on Tennessee River, was a Cherokee village of the same name, probably on the site of an earlier Creek v... [click for more]
Chattanooga’s First CitizensIn June, 1837 the fifty-three householders living on the two hundred forty acres bounded by Tennessee River. Georgia Avenue, Ninth Street and Cameron ... [click for more]
Chattanooga, Harrison, Georgetown & Charleston Railroad TunnelChattanooga, Harrison, Georgetown & Charleston Railroad Tunnel is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Civil War FortificationCivil War in Tennessee - Controlling the River and Rails
Civil War in Tennessee
Controlling the River and Rails ... [click for more]
Civil War River CrossingGeneral Ulysses S. Grant's plan for lifting the siege of Chattanooga called for the Union Army of the Tennessee under General William T. Sherman to cr... [click for more]
Confederate CemeteryHere are buried 155 soldiers of the Army of Tennessee who died in hospitals during the mobilization for Bragg's Kentucky campaign of Sept. - Oct., 186... [click for more]
Crane BuildingCrane Building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Cross RoadsHere the first two post roads established in Hamilton County by the United States Government, in 1820, crossed.
This spot was also the site... [click for more]
Daniel Ross The home of this early trader and pioneer stood about 250 yards east. Born in Scotland, 1760, coming to this area in 1785, he shortly after married a... [click for more]
Ernest Walter Holmes, Sr. ~ 1883?1945Born in 1883, Ernest Walter Holmes, Sr., opened Chattanooga's first independent auto-repair garage at 318 Market Street. Here in 1916 he invented the ... [click for more]
Faxon-Thomas MansionFaxon-Thomas Mansion is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Ferger Place Historic DistrictFerger Place Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
First Coca-Cola Bottling Company In The United StatesOn July 21, 1899, two Chattanooga lawyers, Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead, signed a contract with the Coca-Cola Company granting ... [click for more]
Fountain SquareFountain Square is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
G. W. Franklin ~ 1865-1928G. W. Franklin was born in Quitman, Georgia. He operated four businesses: blacksmithing, a hack line, a wood and coal yard, and an undertaking establi... [click for more]
Georgia - Tennessee, Hamilton County LineHamilton County
Established 1819; named in honor of
Alexander Hamilton,
Glenwood Historic DistrictGlenwood Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Headquarters Row - Generals and GhostsHeadquarters Row
Generals and Ghosts
Beginning in 1862, Confederate Gens. Braxton Bragg, Daniel Le... [click for more]
James BuildingJames Building is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR ... [click for more]
John Ross (1790 - 1866)John Ross was the grandson of John McDonald and the son of Daniel Ross natives of Scotland and partners in a trading post established at Ross's Landin... [click for more]
Locomotive 4501 Locomotive 4501 (Class M2s, Baldwin No. 37085, built in 1911) was the first 2-8-2 type engine to operate on the Southern Railway System and saw activ... [click for more]
Lookout Mountain Caverns and Cavern CastleLookout Mountain Caverns and Cavern Castle is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Lookout Mountain Incline RailwayLookout Mountain Incline Railway is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Louise Terrace ApartmentsLouise Terrace Apartments is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
M.L. King Boulevard Historic DistrictM.L. King Boulevard Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Maclellan BuildingMaclellan Building is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR ... [click for more]
Market Square-Patten ParkwayMarket Square-Patten Parkway is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Market and Main Streets Historic DistrictMarket and Main Streets Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Martin Hotel (1924-1985)Martin Hotel
1924-1985
? Chattanooga, Tennessee ?
For sixty-one years the Martin Hotel was loca... [click for more]
Mary Walker (1848-1969)Born a slave in Union Springs, Alabama, Grandma Walker moved to Chattanooga in 1917 and remained here until her death. At the age of 116 she enrolled ... [click for more]
Medical Arts BuildingMedical Arts Building is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR ... [click for more]
Mikado Locomotive No. 4501Mikado Locomotive No. 4501 is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Military History of ChattanoogaThis city was first occupied by Confederate troops in the spring of 1862 under Generals Floyd, Maxey and Leadbetter. Union troops under General Mitche... [click for more]
Miller Brothers Department StoreMiller Brothers Department Store is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Municipal BuildingMunicipal Building is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR ... [click for more]
Northside United PresbyterianNorthside United Presbyterian is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR ... [click for more]
Occupied Chattanooga - The WaterfrontOccupied Chattanooga
The Waterfront
Chattanooga's Tennessee River waterfront underwent major change... [click for more]
Ochs BuildingOchs Building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Old Library BuildingOld Library Building is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR (AD) ... [click for more]
Old Post OfficeOld Post Office is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Raccoon MountainRaccoon Mountain
Establishing the Cracker Line
? Chattanooga Campaign ?
After the Battle o... [click for more]
Randolph M. MillerRandolph Miller, a former slave, came to Chattanooga in 1864 with Gen. William T. Sherman's Army. He worked as a pressman for Adolph Ochs' Daily Ti... [click for more]
Robert Schwartz and Company BuildingRobert Schwartz and Company Building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Roland Hayes (1887-1977)Tenor Roland Hayes received his first musical training in the choir of Monumental Baptist Church, Chattanooga. He went on to become a principal solois... [click for more]
Ross’s LandingEstablished about 1816 by John Ross some 370 yards east of this point, it consisted of a ferry, warehouse, and landing. With the organization of Hamil... [click for more]
Sallie A Crenshaw (1900-1986)Ordained in 1936, Sallie Crenshaw was the first black female minister in the East Tennessee Methodist Conference. Returning to Chattanooga after worki... [click for more]
Signal Knitting MillsSignal Knitting Mills is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Soldiers and Sailors Memorial AuditoriumSoldiers and Sailors Memorial Auditorium is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR ... [click for more]
Southern Railway Freight DepotSouthern Railway Freight Depot is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
St. Elmo Historic DistrictSt. Elmo Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Stone Fort Land Company Historic DistrictStone Fort Land Company Historic District is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Stringer’s RidgeNamed for Capt. William Stringer, a pioneer. From there, Federal artillery in Brig. Gen. James S. Negley's task force bombarded Chattanooga, June 7 & ... [click for more]
Swaim’s Jail - Confining Andrew’s RaidersSwaim's Jail
Confining Andrew's Raiders
Swaim's Jail, a small two-story brick building set into the ... [click for more]
Tennessee Valley Railroad And MuseumOperates over 3 miles near original East Tennessee, Virgina & Georgia Railroad right of way, using pre-1930 equipment, to East Chattanooga terminus. L... [click for more]
Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum Rolling StockTennessee Valley Railroad Museum Rolling Stock is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Terminal Station ~ Chattanooga, TennesseeThe Terminal Station was designed in the year 1900 by architect Dou Barber of New York City and was awarded first place in the 1900 Paris Beaux Arts C... [click for more]
The Bridge BurnersEarly on the morning of Nov. 9, 1861, bands of Union sympathizers burned two railroad bridges over Chickamauga Creek about a mile east. This cut Chatt... [click for more]
The Union DepotThe Union Depot, constructed on this site between 1857-1859, as a large train-shed with tracks, offices and waiting-rooms beneath, originated in an ag... [click for more]
Tivoli TheaterTivoli Theater is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR (AD) ... [click for more]
Trail of TearsIn May 1838 soldiers, under the command of Gen. Winfield Scott, began rounding up Cherokee Indians in this area who had refused to move to Indian Terr... [click for more]
Trigg-Smartt BuildingTrigg-Smartt Building is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
Turnbull Cone and Machine CompanyTurnbull Cone and Machine Company is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
U.S. Post OfficeU.S. Post Office is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR ... [click for more]
Walden HospitalDr. Emma Rochelle Wheeler, a graduate of Meharry Medical College, established, owned, and operated Walden Hospital beginning in 1915. Established to s... [click for more]
Walnut Street BridgeWalnut Street Bridge is listed in the National Register of Historic Places... [click for more]
WauhatchieThis Cherokee sub-chief lived in the area north of the road following the expulsion of his tribe from Georgia and until their forced removal to Indian... [click for more]
William (Uncle Bill) Lewis ~ 1810 - 1896William (Uncle Bill) Lewis
1810 - 1896
William Lewis was born in Winchester, Tennessee, in 1810 as a... [click for more]
Williams’ IslandNamed for a pioneer occupant, this island was the site of an Indian village and probably of an 18th Century French trading post. Here, on May 31, 1862... [click for more]
Wyatt HallWyatt Hall is listed in the National Register of Historic PlacesHunt, Reuben H., Buildings in Hamilton County TR ... [click for more]