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1987 – Fellowship of Southern Writers headquartered in Chattanooga. 1989 – Federal judge ordered change in city governance to city council system to allow for more demographically-correct African-American political representation in City Council (Brown vs. Board of Commissioners of the City of Chattanooga) 1992 – Tennessee Aquarium opened ...
Chattanooga (/ ˌ tʃ æ t ə ˈ n uː ɡ ə / CHAT-ə-NOO-gə) is a city in and the county seat of Hamilton County, Tennessee, United States.It is located along the Tennessee River, and borders Georgia to the south.
The Chattanooga State Office Building pictured on Jan. 17, 2015. The Chattanooga State Office Building is a historic building at 540 McCallie Avenue in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the United States. [1] [2] [3] The six-story building was built in 1950 at a cost of $1.75 million to be the headquarters for the Interstate Life Insurance ...
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.
Beginning at I-24 and ending at SR 111, the route is a controlled-access highway for approximately 24 miles (39 km). The highway goes north as a narrow four-lane freeway (concurrent with unsigned I-124) through downtown and has interchanges with West Main Street (exit 1), Martin Luther King Boulevard (exits 1A–B; unsigned SR 316), and Fourth Street (exit 1C; unsigned SR 389) before crossing ...
The Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway (reporting mark CCKY) is a short-line railroad which is headquartered in LaFayette, Georgia, USA.The railroad operated 22 miles (35 km) of the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway (a.k.a. the TAG route) from Chattanooga, Tennessee to Kensington, Georgia, which reverted to the Norfolk Southern System and was partially removed after the Dow Reichhold ...
Feb. 18—Charles Lowery Jr. was the first African American with a college degree to be an officer with the Hamilton County Sheriff's Office when he joined in 1976. After graduating with a ...
Its county seat is Chattanooga, located along the Tennessee River. [4] The county was named for Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury. Hamilton County is one of 95 counties within Tennessee. [5] Hamilton County is part of the Chattanooga, TN-GA Metropolitan Statistical Area. The county was created on October 25, 1819. [6]