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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO8L_chattanoogas-first-citizens_Chattanooga-TN.html
In June, 1837 the fifty-three householders living on the two hundred forty acres bounded by Tennessee River. Georgia Avenue, Ninth Street and Cameron Hill elected commissioner to represent them in securing legal title to their individual parcels o…
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John Ross was the grandson of John McDonald and the son of Daniel Ross natives of Scotland and partners in a trading post established at Ross's Landing. He dedicated himself to the education of the Cherokee Nation. JOHN ROSS is called the greatest…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMO8J_cherokee_Chattanooga-TN.html
May this sculpture serve to honor the countless generations of native Americans who for 10,000 years lived in this place."Among these people every man is a king unto himself and no man is above any other," (Jesuit Relations, c.1640)"They are tall …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMAIH_first-presbyterian-church_Chattanooga-TN.html
(Obverse)This church, founded June 21, 1840, by missionaries to the Cherokee Indians from the brainerd Mission and others, is Chattanooga's oldest with record of its founding date. During the Civil War, its building at 7th and Market streets was s…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA7V_first-coca-cola-bottling-company-in-the-united-states_Chattanooga-TN.html
On July 21, 1899, two Chattanooga lawyers, Benjamin Franklin Thomas and Joseph Brown Whitehead, signed a contract with the Coca-Cola Company granting them the exclusive rights to bottle Coca-Cola in most of the United States. Another Chattanooga c…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMA5U_william-uncle-bill-lewis_Chattanooga-TN.html
Born a slave in Winchester, Tennessee, William Lewis came to Chattanooga in 1837, when it was Ross' Landing. After building a thriving blacksmith business, Lewis purchased his and his wife's freedom. In 1851, he purchased the freedom of his mother…
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/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/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…
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1865-1928 G. W. Franklin was born in Quitman, Georgia. He operated four businesses: blacksmithing, a hack line, a wood and coal yard, and an undertaking establishment. In 1894 Franklin moved his undertaking business to Chattanooga. He was a member…