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The first tunnel, known as the Western and Atlantic Railroad Tunnel at Tunnel Hill, was completed on May 7, 1850, as part of the construction of the Western & Atlantic Railroad (W & A), the first state road in Georgia. It was the first major railroad tunnel in the South and is 1,447 feet [1] /0.274 miles; 441 meters in
The community was first known as Doe Run. It was incorporated on March 4, 1848, as Tunnelsville, and changed its name in 1856 to Tunnel Hill. Both names refer to the nearby 1,497-foot (456 m) Chetoogeta Mountain Tunnel railroad tunnel cut through Chetoogeta Mountain, officially dedicated on October 31, 1849 by Etowah steel-maker Mark A. Cooper on behalf of the state-owned Western & Atlantic ...
May 10, 2005 (1385 Dawnville Rd. Dalton: 10: Thornton Avenue-Murray Hill Historic District: Thornton Avenue-Murray Hill Historic District: June 4, 1992
Sherman ordered Corse's brigade, with a detachment from Joseph A.J. Lightburn's brigade, to attack along the narrow length of Tunnel Hill. Col. John M. Loomis's brigade, supported by Buschbeck, would move across the open fields on the west of the ridge while Brig. Gen. Giles Alexander Smith's brigade would move through the valley on the east ...
Patton Tunnel/Taswell Tunnel, rail tunnel, 769 feet (234 m) long, [22] Norfolk Southern Railway, under Tunnel Hill Road between Taswell and English in Crawford County Ritner Tunnel / The Big Tunnel , rail tunnel, 1857, 1,731 feet (528 m) long, [ 23 ] CSX railroad under Tunnel Hill, along the East Fork of the White River , east of Tunnelton and ...
Near Loudoun December 2. Expedition to Murphey, N. C., December 6–11. Charleston and Calhoun December 28. Regiment reenlisted January 4, 1864. Demonstration on Dalton, Ga., February 22–27, 1864 (non-veterans). Near Dalton February 23. Tunnel Hill, Buzzard's Roost Gap and Rocky Faced Ridge February 23–25. Tunnel Hill February 25.
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Skirmish near Tunnel Hill. May 6–7, 1864. Skirmishes at Tunnel Hill. May 7, 1864. Skirmish at Varnell's Station. ... Ga. In late August, Sherman determined that if ...