Description: Chattanooga, Tennessee, Images of America, Paperback Beautifully situated on the Tennessee River between the CumberlandPlateau and the Great Smoky Mountains, Chattanooga has a history asfascinating and diverse as it is long. Chattanooga began as a river landing,and when residents of the small frontier settlement of Ross's Landingmet in 1838 to decide upon a new name for their community, they couldnot have foreseen the changes that would affect the community theynamed Chattanooga.Within a few years of the 1849 arrival of the first train of the Westernand Atlantic Railroad, Chattanooga became an important communicationscrossroads: the battles of Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and MissionaryRidge were fought in 1863 to determine control of this strategically cruciallocation. If these conflicts played a part in deciding the fate of the nation,they also decided the future of Chattanooga. Although the war ravagedthe countryside and destroyed city buildings, it also brought new life:Union soldiers and entrepreneurs alike recognized the economic potentialof the area and not only rebuilt Chattanooga and Hamilton County, buttransformed the region into a progressive industrial center of the South.
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Location: Columbia, South Carolina
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Item must be returned within: 30 Days
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Brand: Unbranded
MPN: 9780738589992
Book Title: Chattanooga
Item Length: 9.2in
Item Height: 0.3in
Item Width: 6.5in
Author: Jerry R. Desmond
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: Subjects & Themes / Regional (See Also Travel / Pictorials), United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, FL, GA, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Pictorials (See Also Photography / Subjects & Themes / Regional)
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing
Publication Year: 1996
Genre: Photography, Travel, History
Item Weight: 0.7 Oz
Number of Pages: 128 Pages
