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1923 – Chattanooga Theatre Centre founded. [7] 1924 – Memorial Auditorium built. [6] 1925 – WDOD radio begins broadcasting. [8] 1930 – Population: 119,798. [9] 1933 – Chattanooga Free Press newspaper begins publication. [4] 1935 – Electric Power Board of Chattanooga established. 1937 – Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park established. [10]
This file is a direct scan by Adam Froehlig from the following book:. Bureau of Public Roads (September 1955). "Chattanooga" (Map). General Location of National System of Interstate Highways Including All Additional Routes at Urban Areas Designated in September 1955 Scale not given.
Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. [ 1 ] There are 109 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including one National Historic Landmark , the Moccasin Bend Archeological District .
The Chattanooga, TN-GA metropolitan statistical area, as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget, is an area consisting of six counties – three in southeast Tennessee (Hamilton, Marion, and Sequatchie) and three in northwest Georgia (Catoosa, Dade, and Walker) – anchored by the city of Chattanooga.
A yellow fever epidemic in Chattanooga caused an exodus in 1878. Almost 12,000 people fled the city, many going to Lookout Mountain. At the time, the mountain was accessible on the north side only by a four-hour trip up the old Whiteside Turnpike, which was built in the 1850s and cost a toll of two dollars.
After the bouts of flooding, a local newspaper article was released that stated the city's leaders planned on raising the grade of the streets of Chattanooga so that they would no longer flood. [1] The people of Chattanooga began to raise the level of a few of the city's streets by 3 to 15 feet. Around 40 blocks of downtown Chattanooga were raised.
In the 1880s, the fort and surrounding land was auctioned off. In time, Fort Wood became one of Chattanooga's finest residential neighborhoods. Large, fashionable homes soon appeared in the Queen Anne, Tudor Revival, and Romanesque Revival styles. Fort Wood's revitalization began with the Warner House at the corner of Vine and Palmetto Streets.