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unusual facts about Chattanooga, TN



10th Mississippi Infantry

The 10th again was part of a general Confederate retreat, finally encamping near Tullahoma, Tennessee, until July 1863 when it advanced to Chattanooga and then on to Bridgeport, Alabama.

24th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry Regiment

The regiment served under generals Grant and Sherman and was engaged in the battles Stone's River, Chickamauga, Franklin, Nashville, Missionary Ridge and Chattanooga.

37th Ohio Infantry

After the fall of that stronghold it was moved across Tennessee from Memphis to Chattanooga, and took part in operations of the 15th Corps, subsequent to, and at the taking of Atlanta, Georgia.

Albert Journeay

After graduating from Penn, Journeay had a career in banking in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Bill Karins

Prior to working at NBC, he was a meteorologist at KSNT in Topeka, Kansas and at WTCI in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Brown's Ferry, Tennessee

Brown's Ferry, Tennessee is an historical crossing point over the Tennessee River between Lookout Valley and Moccasin Bend in the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority

:UT-Chattanooga, Dodson Avenue Health Center, Glenwood, Erlanger Hospital, Memorial Hospital, Parkwood Nursing Home, Harriet Tubman Development, Campbell Street, Highway 58, Washington Hills School

Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport

The first scheduled air carrier operation in Tennessee took place in Chattanooga in 1928 at Marr Field, dedicated in December 1919, named for Walter L. Marr, and located off present-day Amnicola Highway.

Chattanooga Times Free Press

In 1956, Charles L. Bartlett of the Washington Bureau of The Chattanooga Times won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting, for articles leading to the resignation of the secretary of the Air Force, Harold E. Talbott.

Chattanooga, Rome and Southern Railroad

An interesting note is that these shares were apparently popular, since the Bank of Liverpool in London bought 10 shares, according to stock certificate number A949, of June 10, 1898.

Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy

"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" (also known as Chattanooga Shoe Shine Boy) is a popular song written by Harry Stone and Jack Stapp and published in 1950.

Chattem

Originally named the Chattanooga Medicine Company, the company’s brand portfolio holds twenty-two brands including Allegra, Gold Bond, Flexall, IcyHot, Rolaids, Bullfrog Sunblock, Sun-In, Pamprin, Dexatrim, Aspercreme, and Selsun Blue.

Colonial Pipeline

On Wednesday, October 3, 2012, Colonial Pipeline shut down line 19 and 20 in Chattanooga, Tennessee due to reports of gasoline odors.

Dunlap, Tennessee

U.S. Route 127 (called "Rankin Avenue" in Dunlap), which traverses the Tennessee section of Sequatchie Valley, connects Dunlap to Crossville and the upper plateau area to the north and Chattanooga opposite Signal Mountain to the southeast.

Emery Bopp

He won numerous awards, and his work is represented in such museums and permanent collections as the Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, the Hunter Gallery in Chattanooga, Tennessee, the South Carolina Arts Commission, Erskine College, the High Museum of Art, and the Greenville County Museum of Art.

Etta Zuber Falconer

She remained at Okolona until 1963, when she accepted a position at Howard High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, where she taught the academic year 1963-64.

George Washington Harris

After the war, Harris, with the help of Chattanooga congressman William Crutchfield, was appointed president of the Wills Valley Railroad (which operated in Georgia and Alabama).

Girls' School

Girls Preparatory School, an all-female college preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA

Gordon Granger

After Chattanooga, Granger took part in lifting the siege at Knoxville, Tennessee.

Half-Fare Hare

Bugs Bunny boards the Chattanooga Choo Choo and finds two hobos who look and act like Ralph Kramden and Ed Norton, from "The Honeymooners" TV show, who want to eat Bugs after being hungry for days.

Hiwassee River

At this point the river interfaces with the impoundment of Chickamauga Dam (located in Chattanooga, Tennessee), and many marshes and wetlands surround the main channel, providing areas for hunting and fishing.

John T. Wilder

In 1867, he founded an ironworks in the Chattanooga region, then built and operated the first two blast furnaces in the South at Rockwood, Tennessee.

KXI22

Hourly conditions are given for Lee Gilmer Memorial Airport in Gainesville, Georgia, Atlanta, Rome, Dalton, Athens, and possibly others in Georgia; and Chattanooga, Knoxville, Asheville, Greenville/Spartanburg, and possibly others in surrounding states.

McCallie

The McCallie School, boys' preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee

National Climatic Data Center

Processing of the climate data was accomplished at Weather Records Processing Centers at Chattanooga, Tennessee, Kansas City, Missouri, and San Francisco, California, until January 1, 1963 when it became consolidated with the NWRC.

Niel Nielson

Since coming to Covenant, he has served on the boards of directors for Good News Publishers/Crossway Books, Allied Arts of Chattanooga, the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, and Covenant Transportation Group, Inc., where he currently functions as chairman of its compensation committee.

Pilgrim's Corp

On April 16, 2008, after a yearlong investigation US Immigration and Customs Enforcement raided plants in Batesville, Arkansas, Live Oak, Florida, Chattanooga, Tennessee, Mount Pleasant, Texas, and Moorefield, West Virginia.

Precept Ministries International

Precept Ministries was founded in 1970 by Jack and Kay Arthur, a married couple who had recently returned to Chattanooga from a posting as missionaries in Mexico.

Settling Accounts: The Grapple

Having gained Chattanooga, Morell seems bent on driving to the Atlantic Ocean through Georgia, thus cutting the Confederate territory in two.

Sharon Feingold

She can be heard daily on HGTV and on STYLE Network and is the station announcer for the ATL Skytrain and The Plane Train (since March 2012) at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, as well as the Incline Railway at Chattanooga, Tennessee's Lookout Mountain.

Sharp's Ridge

The nearest "antenna farms" to Sharp's Ridge are on Holston Mountain in upper East Tennessee, home to most of the FM and TV stations in the Tri-Cities (Bristol, Virginia-Kingsport, Tennessee-Johnson City, Tennessee) Designated Market Area (DMA), and the Signal Mountain broadcast antenna farm, near Chattanooga, Tennessee, home to most of the FM and TV station antennas in that DMA.

Sisters Family Cookbook

The authors are Martha Hale, Becky Ott-Carden, Ellen Hubbard, all of Hogansville, Shirley Williamson of Newnan, Bobbie Williams of Statesboro, Joyce Harlin of Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Willie Todd of Lexington, Kentucky.

SORBA

More recently, SORBA-Chattanooga volunteers partnered with the Tennessee Valley Authority to construct trails on Raccoon Mountain.

In 2005, SORBA-Chattanooga was awarded a Certificate of Appreciation by the United States Department of Agriculture for its active participation in the volunteer trail maintenance program of the Ocoee/Hiwassee District of the Cherokee National Forest.

Sun Valley Serenade

It features The Glenn Miller Orchestra as well as dancing by The Nicholas Brothers and Dorothy Dandridge, performing "Chattanooga Choo Choo", which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Song, was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1996, and was awarded the first Gold Record for sales of 1.2 million.

This scene begins in the practice studio with the Glenn Miller Orchestra practicing "Chattanooga Choo Choo".

The Bedtime Record

The Bedtime Record is a defunct record label that began in Chattanooga, TN in 1997 by Jake Cunningham.

Unum

Corporate parent company Unum Group consists of three divisions: Unum US (headquartered in Chattanooga, TN), Unum UK (headquartered in Dorking, England), and Colonial Life (headquartered in Columbia, SC).

WDEF

WDEF-FM, a radio station (92.3 FM) licensed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

WDEF-TV, a television station (digital channel 12) licensed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States

WDNN-CA

The station also has two translators (repeaters): Chattanooga, Tennessee/Ringgold, Georgia's WRNG-LP (on channel 28), LaFayette, Georgia's WLFW-LP (on channel 41).

WYHB-LP

WYHB-LP is a low-power television station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, broadcasting locally on channel 39 as an affiliate of America One.

You Can Go Home

The video was shot on the 8th of May or June in 1991, at both Nashville in Tennessee and Tennessee Railroad Museum in Chattanooga.


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