Whitwell, Tennessee

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Tennessee River 11 songs

History of Whitwell

From Choo Choo to Gig City RoadyGoat

Chattanooga has reinvented itself twice over. Looming over downtown is Lookout Mountain, climbed by the Incline Railway, a funicular opened in 1895 with a maximum grade near 73 percent, among the steepest passenger railways anywhere. Then came the modern twist: in 2010 the city-owned utility EPB lit up one of the first community-wide gigabit fiber internet networks in the country, earning Chattanooga the nickname 'Gig City' and a reputation as an unlikely tech hotspot. A river town between the mountains that went from steam whistles to fiber optics, Chattanooga keeps finding new ways to move fast.

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Chattanooga is a community in TN.

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See Seven States at Lover's Leap RoadyGoat

1932

From a sandstone outcrop on the Georgia side of Lookout Mountain, a painted compass rose points out seven states: Tennessee a quarter mile north, Alabama twenty-five miles to the west, then arrows reaching into Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Virginia. The claim has been disputed for nearly a century. In 2015 a meteorologist ran the sight lines and argued that on the very clearest day you might see five. Rock City has never budged. Garnet and Frieda Carter opened the garden in 1932 at the bottom of the Depression and needed people to drive up the mountain, so in 1935 Frieda hired a young sign painter named Clark Byers to letter See Rock City on the roof of any barn whose farmer would let him. He covered more than nine hundred barns across nineteen states in a black Ford, paid forty dollars a month and free roof paint, and kept at it until a power line knocked him off a ladder in 1969. The cliff itself is Lover's Leap, the spot in Cherokee legend where a princess named Nacoochee threw herself after her Choctaw lover Sautee was killed by her own tribe. Stand at the marker on a clear morning before the haze sets in and whatever number of states you count, you can see that they all just blur into the same green.

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Ruby Falls

1928

A 145-foot underground waterfall inside Lookout Mountain, discovered in 1928 and now the tallest publicly accessible underground waterfall in the United States.

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Lookout Mountain - Point Park

1863

On November 24, 1863, Union forces under General Joseph Hooker fought Confederate troops on the slopes of Lookout Mountain in fog so thick it became known as the Battle Above the Clouds.

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Chickamauga Dam - TVA

1936

Chickamauga Dam, completed in 1940, was one of the major Tennessee Valley Authority projects that electrified the rural South and transformed the Tennessee River system.

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See Seven States at Lover's Leap

From a sandstone outcrop on the Georgia side of Lookout Mountain a painted compass rose points out seven states: Tennessee a quarter mile north, Alabama…
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Ruby Falls

A 145-foot underground waterfall inside Lookout Mountain. Discovered in 1928.

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