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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM91K_walden-hospital_Chattanooga-TN.html
Dr. Emma Rochelle Wheeler, a graduate of Meharry Medical College, established, owned and operated Walden Hospital beginning in 1915. Established to serve the medical needs of Chattanooga's Negro community, the hospital had a 30-bed capacity. Walde…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM91J_the-mccallie-school_Chattanooga-TN.html
A boarding and day day school preparing more than 6,300 boys for college in its first 75 years. McCallie was established on this former Missionary Ridge battlefield in 1905. The founder, the Rev. Thomas Hooke McCallie, Civil War pastor of First Pr…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM91G_missionary-ridge_Chattanooga-TN.html
So called from its nearness to the Brainerd Mission to the Cherokee, this ridge was the scene of the final and conclusive action in the series of battles which drove the Confederates from the Chattanooga area. After first clearing a line of riflep…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM90M_chattanoogas-first-school_Chattanooga-TN.html
In 1835 a log structure near the corner of Fifth and Lookout Sts, served this area as schoolhouse, church, and community center. Community leaders met here in 1838 and selected "Chattanooga" as the name for the Future city. The official act was…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM90L_bessie-smith_Chattanooga-TN.html
Born in Chattanooga to black parents, her great talent and determination earned her the title "Empress of the Blues." Death came in a tragic automobile accident in Clarksdale, Miss. In her memory, Columbia Records erected a tombstone with the epit…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM90K_rosss-landing_Chattanooga-TN.html
Established about 1816 by John Ross some 370 yards east of this point, it consisted of a ferry, warehouse, and landing. With the organization of Hamilton County in 1819 north of the river, it served not only the Cherokee trade but also as a conven…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM90J_williams-island_Chattanooga-TN.html
Named for a pioneer occupant, occupant, this island was the site of an Indian village and probably of an 18th Century French trading post. Here, on May 31, 1862, JamesJ. Andrews, leader of the Andrews Raid, was captured following his escape from j…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8XT_chattanooga-daily-rebel_Chattanooga-TN.html
Established on this site, Aug. 2, 1862, by Franc M. Paul, it was published in three states, five towns and, for several months, in a boxcar traveling with Confederate armies. Later editors were Henry Watterson and Albert Roberts. Usually, it was t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8XR_the-university-of-tennessee-at-chattanooga_Chattanooga-TN.html
Founded by the Methodist Episcopal Church with generous assistance by Chattanoogans, this institution became a principal campus of The University of Tennessee in 1969. As an endowed, privately controlled institution it was known as Chattanooga Uni…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM88L_the-union-depot_Chattanooga-TN.html
The Union Depot, constructed on this site between 1857-1859, as a large train-shed with tracks, offices and waiting-rooms beneath, originated in an agreement of Sept. 12, 1857, between the Western & Atlantic and the Nashville & Chattanooga Railroa…