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2 unusual facts about Lookout Mountain


Bumper sticker

The first widespread use of the advertising bumper sticker might have been the ubiquitous "See Rock City" signs, touting a tourist attraction atop Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.

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.


2nd Regiment Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry

Hooker's two Corps played a decisive role in the Battle of Wauhatchie, which opened up the "Cracker Line" to the besieged Union army, and seized Lookout Mountain in the famed "Battle Above The Clouds" during the early stages of the Battle of Chattanooga.

Leffert L. Buck

Before earning his civil engineering degree from RPI, Buck fought for the Union Army in the American Civil War under General Slocum, participating in the battles at Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Resaca and

Miniature golf

The first standardized minigolf courses to enter commercial mass-production were the Thistle Dhu ("This'll Do") course 1916 in Pinehurst, North Carolina, and the 1927 Tom Thumb patent of Garnet Carter from Lookout Mountain, Tennessee.


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Association of Reformed Institutions of Higher Education

Covenant College (Lookout Mountain, Georgia) is affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America,

Laurel Canyon, Los Angeles

Between 1912 and 1918, a trackless electric trolley ran up the canyon from Sunset Boulevard to the base of Lookout Mountain Road where a road house served visitors.

Reed Hadley

Hadley was the narrator of several Department of Defense films: "Operation Ivy", about the first hydrogen bomb test, Ivy Mike, "Military Participation on Tumbler/Snapper"; "Military Participation on Buster Jangle"; and "Operation Upshot-Knothole" all of which were produced by Lookout Mountain studios.