Table of Contents
Introduction 11
1 From Ross's Landing to the Mountain
Ross's Landing 13
Brainerd Mission 15
Underground Chattanooga 19
Market Street Bridge 20
Walnut Street Bridge 23
Maclellan Island 23
Bluff View Arts District 26
Hunter Museum 26
Houston Museum 29
Ruth Holmberg Glass Bridge 33
Tennessee Aquarium 33
Coca-Cola Bottling 34
Southern Belle 35
Sunken History 36
Cameron Hill 36
Bellsouth Park 39
Crutchfield House 39
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library 44
Single Steeple 44
Thomas McCallie House 48
Golden Dome Building 48
Fountain Square 52
Solomon Federal Building 52
Cadek 55
Walden Hospital 59
The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga 60
Swaim's Jail 60
Soldiers Memorial Auditorium 61
Tivoli Theater 62
Union Station and Krystal Building 63
Patten Parkway 64
City Hall 64
Customs House 66
Bessie Smith Museum 66
Warehouse Row 68
Terminal Station and "Chattanooga Choo-Choo" 68
Terminal Brewhouse 68
Main Street 69
Ferger Place 69
2 The North Shore of the Tennessee River
Moccasin Bend 71
Williams Island 74
The Baylor School 75
Olgiati Bridge 75
Hill City 75
Frazier Avenue 76
Stringer's Ridge 76
Delta Queen 77
Chattanooga Theatre Centre 78
Coolidge Park 78
Renaissance Park 79
The Girls' Preparatory School (GPS) 79
The Bright School 80
Normal Park 80
Lyndhurst 83
3 Lookout Mountain
Forest Hills Cemetery 85
Incline 87
Cravens House 90
Battle above the Clouds 90
Fairyland Club and Rock City 92
Natural Bridge 95
Ruby Falls 100
Sunset Rock 103
Chestnut Blight 104
Lula Lake Land Trust 107
Cloudland Canyon 108
Reflection Riding 108
Raccoon Mountain 110
4 From the Citico Mound to the Volkswagen Plant
Citico Mound 113
Tennessee Riverwalk 116
Tennessee River Railroad Bridge/Cincinnati Southern Railway Bridge, Chickamauga Dam and Chickamauga Lake 116
Engel Stadium 118
Citizen's Cemetery 122
Baroness Erlanger Medical Center 123
Orchard Knob 123
National Cemetery 123
McCallie School 126
Missionary Ridge 127
TNT Plant-Volkswagen 129
Audubon Acres 130
5 Georgia
Chickamauga Chattanooga National Battlefield Park 131
Lake Winnepesaukah 134
The John Ross House 135
Chief Wauhatchie's Home 136
Lee and Gordon's Mill 136
World War I and World War II Barnhardt Circle 136
Paradise Gardens 138
New Echota 140
Dahlonega 143
6 Signal Mountain
Signal Mountain 147
Anderson Turnpike/The W Road 147
Signal Mountain Space House 148
7 North of Chattanooga
Red Clay Council Ground 151
Chatata 151
Lost Sea 153
Bibliography 157
About the Author 159