Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA
1916

Chattanoo'ga, a city of Tennessee, the capital of Hamilton co., is pleasantly situated on the left bank of the Tennessee River and on the Southern, the Queen and Crescent, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis and other railroads, 151 miles SE. of Nashville and 138 miles NNW. of Atlanta. It is surrounded by picturesque scenery with fine views of the adjoining Lookout Mountain and the Cumberlands, several valleys and interesting ridges converging to this point. Steamboats navigate the river above and below this place, which is very favorably situated for trade and manufactures, having mines of coal and iron in its vicinity. Chattanooga is the seat of several advanced educational institutions, including the Chattanooga College for Young Ladies, Chattanooga Normal University, Chattanooga Medical College, and the Grant University ( Methodist Episcopal), the last-named attended by between 500 and 600 students. The manufacturing and other industries of the city are very important, and the amount of capital in vested in them is many millions of dollars. The industrial establishments comprise cotton-mills, iron-foundries, blast furnaces, machine-shops, steel- and rail-works, rolling-mills, and manufactories of railroad cars, carriages, wire, nails, patent medicines, chemicals, fertilizers, lumber products, etc. The city has an extensive trade in cotton, iron, coal, and wheat, and is one of the largest lumber-markets of the country. Among its public buildings are a fine opera- house, a Colored Orphans' Home, the Baroness Erlanger Hospital, grain-elevators, and a marble custom-house. It has a fine national military park, which embraces the Chickamauga battle-field, and a national cemetery. This town was occupied by the Union army Sept. 9, 1863, and was almost entirely destroyed during the Civil War. The battle of Chattanooga, in which Grant was victorious over Bragg, was fought Nov. 23-25, 1863. The engagement of Nov. 24 is known as the battle of Lookout Mountain ; that of Nov. 25, as the battle of Missionary Ridge. Incorporated as a city in 1851. Pop. in 1860, 2545 ; in 1870, 6093 ; in 1880, 12,892; in 1890, 29,100; in 1900, 30,154.

Lippincotts New Gazetteer: A Complete Pronouncing Gazetteer Or Geographical Dictionary of the World, Containing the Most Recent and Authentic Information Respecting the Countries, Cities, Towns, Resorts, Islands, Rivers, Mountains, Seas, Lakes, Etc., in Every Portion of the Globe, Part 1 Angelo Heilprin Louis Heilprin - January 1, 1916 J.B. Lippincott - Publisher

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