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[3] Name on the Register [4] Image Date listed [5] Location City or town Description 1: Audubon Acres Site (40 HA 84) October 7, 1982 (900 N Sanctuary Rd. Chattanooga
Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Chattanooga, Tennessee" The following 35 pages are in this category, out of 35 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
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.
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.
Ferger Place Historic District in Chattanooga, Tennessee was so named and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. "Ferger Place" was founded in 1910 as the first exclusively White [ 2 ] gated community ("restricted private park" [ 3 ] ) south of the Mason–Dixon line .
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.
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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]