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1983 – Chattanooga African-American Museum established. [12] 1983-97 – Gene Roberts began city's longest term as mayor. 1984 – Veterans Memorial Bridge built. 1986 - Chattanooga School for the Arts & Sciences established. 1987 – Fellowship of Southern Writers headquartered in Chattanooga.
The museum was first proposed in 1992. [3] A committee was created on March 9, 1992 to study the feasibility of establishing a museum which would be "an organized and permanent non-profit institution, essentially educational or aesthetic in purpose, with professional staff, which owns and utilizes tangible objects, cares for them and exhibits them to the public on some regular schedule."
The Institute of Contemporary Arts Chattanooga (ICA Chattanooga), located on campus of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC), hosts a series of exhibitions of contemporary art throughout the year, which include exhibitions by regional and national contemporary artists and also feature from UTC's permanent collection.
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [4] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [5]
Cleveland is the county seat of, and largest city in, Bradley County, Tennessee. [10] The population was 47,356 at the 2020 census. [11] It is the principal city of the Cleveland metropolitan area, Tennessee (consisting of Bradley and neighboring Polk County), which is included in the Chattanooga–Cleveland–Dalton, TN–GA–AL Combined Statistical Area.
Centenary is the oldest extant building on Lee's campus. In 1947, Bob Jones College moved from Cleveland to Greenville, South Carolina. [15] The Bible training school purchased the 20-acre campus for $1.5 million and the institution returned to Cleveland under a new name, Lee College, to honor its second president, Rev. F.J. Lee. [8] [10] After the move, the junior college received ...
Cate and his men destroyed three Chattanooga-area railroad bridges on the night of November 8, 1861, in hopes of paving the way for a Union invasion of East Tennessee. [6] On November 24, 1863, the 4th Michigan Cavalry entered Ooltewah and captured seventeen Confederates, including two officers, and destroyed a train of four wagons.
Interstate 75 traverses the county from the southwest to the north, passing through the western edge of Cleveland. There are four exits on I-75 in Bradley County: three in Cleveland and one in Charleston. U.S. Route 11 and U.S. Route 64 intersect in downtown Cleveland. U.S. 11 connects to Chattanooga to the southwest and Athens to the north.