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Chattanooga, "the Scenic City", is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee
Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
 (after Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
, Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
, and Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
), and the seat
County seat

A county seat or parish seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there....
 of Hamilton County
Hamilton County, Tennessee

Hamilton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It was named for Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 310,935 ....
, in the United States of America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It is located in southeast Tennessee on Chickamauga
Chickamauga Lake

Chickamauga Lake is a reservoir along the Tennessee River created when the Chickamauga Dam, as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority, was completed in 1940....
 and Nickajack Lake
Nickajack Lake

Nickajack Lake is the reservoir created by Nickajack Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The lake stretches from Nickajack Dam to Chickamauga Dam, and runs along the shores of Chattanooga, TN....
, which are both part of the Tennessee River
Tennessee River

The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long and is located in the Southern United States in the Tennessee Valley....
, near the border of Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
, and at the junction of three interstate highways, I-24
Interstate 24

Interstate 24 is an Interstate Highway in the eastern United States. I-24 runs from Interstate 57 to Chattanooga, Tennessee, at Interstate 75....
, I-75
Interstate 75

Interstate 75 is a major north-south Interstate Highway in the midwest and southeastern United States. It travels from State Road 826 and State Road 924 in Hialeah, Florida, Florida to Sault Ste....
, and I-59
Interstate 59

Interstate 59 is an Interstate Highway in the southern United States. Its southern terminus is near Slidell, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, at an intersection with Interstate 10 and Interstate 12, its northern terminus is at Wildwood, Georgia, at an intersection with Interstate 24....
.

The city (downtown elevation approximately 685 feet), which lies at the transition between the ridge-and-valley
Ridge-and-valley Appalachians

The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, also called the Ridge and Valley Province or the Valley and Ridge Appalachians, are a Physiographic regions of the world of the larger Appalachian Mountains division and are also a belt within the Appalachian Mountains extending from northern New Jersey westward into Pennsylvania and southward...
 portion of the Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachian Mountains or , often called the Appalachians, are a vast mountain range in eastern North America. Definitions vary on the precise boundaries of the Appalachians....
 and the Cumberland Plateau
Cumberland Plateau

The Cumberland Plateau is the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau. It includes much of eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia, part of Tennessee, and a small portion of northern Alabama and northwest Georgia ....
, is surrounded by mountains and ridges.

first inhabitants of the Chattanooga area were Native American Indians.






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Chattanooga, "the Scenic City", is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee
Tennessee

Tennessee is a U.S. state located in the Southern United States United States. In 1796, it became the sixteenth state to join the United States....
 (after Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Memphis rises above the Mississippi River on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff just south of the mouth of the Wolf River ....
, Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
, and Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
), and the seat
County seat

A county seat or parish seat is a term for an administrative center for a county or civil parish, primarily used in the United States. In the Northeast United States, the statutory term often is shire town, but colloquially county seat is the term in use there....
 of Hamilton County
Hamilton County, Tennessee

Hamilton County is a county located in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It was named for Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury. The 2005 Census Estimate placed the population at 310,935 ....
, in the United States of America
United States

The United States of America is a Federal government constitutional republic comprising U.S. state and a federal district. The country is situated mostly in central North America, where its Contiguous United States and Washington, D.C., the Capital districts and territories, lie between the Pacific Ocean and Atlantic Oceans, Borders of the U...
. It is located in southeast Tennessee on Chickamauga
Chickamauga Lake

Chickamauga Lake is a reservoir along the Tennessee River created when the Chickamauga Dam, as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority, was completed in 1940....
 and Nickajack Lake
Nickajack Lake

Nickajack Lake is the reservoir created by Nickajack Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The lake stretches from Nickajack Dam to Chickamauga Dam, and runs along the shores of Chattanooga, TN....
, which are both part of the Tennessee River
Tennessee River

The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long and is located in the Southern United States in the Tennessee Valley....
, near the border of Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
, and at the junction of three interstate highways, I-24
Interstate 24

Interstate 24 is an Interstate Highway in the eastern United States. I-24 runs from Interstate 57 to Chattanooga, Tennessee, at Interstate 75....
, I-75
Interstate 75

Interstate 75 is a major north-south Interstate Highway in the midwest and southeastern United States. It travels from State Road 826 and State Road 924 in Hialeah, Florida, Florida to Sault Ste....
, and I-59
Interstate 59

Interstate 59 is an Interstate Highway in the southern United States. Its southern terminus is near Slidell, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, at an intersection with Interstate 10 and Interstate 12, its northern terminus is at Wildwood, Georgia, at an intersection with Interstate 24....
.

The city (downtown elevation approximately 685 feet), which lies at the transition between the ridge-and-valley
Ridge-and-valley Appalachians

The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, also called the Ridge and Valley Province or the Valley and Ridge Appalachians, are a Physiographic regions of the world of the larger Appalachian Mountains division and are also a belt within the Appalachian Mountains extending from northern New Jersey westward into Pennsylvania and southward...
 portion of the Appalachian Mountains
Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachian Mountains or , often called the Appalachians, are a vast mountain range in eastern North America. Definitions vary on the precise boundaries of the Appalachians....
 and the Cumberland Plateau
Cumberland Plateau

The Cumberland Plateau is the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau. It includes much of eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia, part of Tennessee, and a small portion of northern Alabama and northwest Georgia ....
, is surrounded by mountains and ridges.

History

The first inhabitants of the Chattanooga area were Native American Indians. Sites dating back to the Upper Paleolithic
Upper Paleolithic

The Upper Paleolithic is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia. Very broadly it dates to between 40,000 and 9th millennium BC years ago, roughly coinciding with the appearance of "high" culture and before the advent of agriculture....
 period showed continuous occupation through the Archaic, Woodland
Woodland period

The Woodland period of North American pre-Columbian cultures refers to the time period from roughly 1000 Common Era to 1000 CE in the eastern part of North America....
, Mississippian
Mississippian culture

The Mississippian culture was a Mound builder Native Americans in the United States culture that flourished in what is now the Midwestern United States, Eastern United States, and Southeastern United States United States from approximately 800 Common Era to 1500 Common Era, varying regionally....
 (900-1650 AD), Muskogean and Cherokee
Cherokee

The Cherokee are a Native Americans in the United States people orginally from the Southeastern United States . They are linguistically connected to speakers of the Iroquoian language....
 (1776 - 1838 AD) periods.

Chief John Ross was said to have stated that Chattanooga was Cherokee for "The Big Catch" because of good fishing on the Tennessee River
Tennessee River

The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long and is located in the Southern United States in the Tennessee Valley....
.

A late 19th century history recounted:

The earliest Cherokee occupation dates from Dragging Canoe
Dragging Canoe

Tsiyugunsini, "He is dragging his canoe", known to whites as Dragging Canoe, was an American Indians in the United States war leader who led a dissident band of Cherokee , against the United States in the American Revolutionary War and a decade afterwards, a series of conflicts known as the Chickamauga wars, becoming the pre-eminent wa...
, who in 1776 separated himself and moved downriver from the main tribe to establish Native American resistance (see Chickamauga Wars
Chickamauga wars

File:We_Are_Not_Yet_Conquered!.jpgThe Chickamauga wars were a series of back-and-forth raids, campaigns, ambushes, minor skirmishes, and several full-scale frontier battles, that were a continuation of the Cherokee struggle against the encroachment into their territory by American frontiersmen from the British colonies which had broken out...
) to European settlement in the southeastern United States. In 1816 John Ross
John Ross (Cherokee chief)

John Ross , also known as Guwisguwi , was Principal Chief of the Cherokee Native Americans in the United States Nation from 1828-1860. Described as the Moses of his people, Ross led the Nation through tumultuous years of development, relocation to Oklahoma, and the American Civil War....
, who later became Principal Chief, settled here and established Ross's Landing. It became one of the centers of Cherokee Nation settlement, which also extended into Georgia and Alabama.

In 1838 the US government forced the Cherokees, along with other Native American Indians from southeastern U.S. states, to relocate in Oklahoma
Oklahoma

Oklahoma is a U.S. state and a sovereignty located in the South Central United States and Southern United States of the United States of America ....
. Their journey west became known as the "Trail of Tears" for their exile and fatalities along the way. The US Army used Ross's Landing as the site of one of three large internment camps, or "emigration depots", where Native Americans were held prior to the journey on the Trail of Tears
Trail of Tears

The Trail of Tears was the relocation and movement of Native Americans in the United States in the United States from their homelands to Indian Territory in the Western United States....
. The other two were Fort Payne, Alabama
Fort Payne, Alabama

official_name = Fort Payne, Alabama|settlement_type = City|image_skyline = FortPayneAir.jpg|imagesize= 325px...
 and the largest at Fort Cass
Fort Cass

Fort Cass, established in 1835, was an important site during the Cherokee removal known as the Trail of Tears. Located on the Hiwassee River near present-day Charleston, Tennessee, Tennessee, it housed a garrison of United States troops and watched over the largest concentration of internment camps where Cherokee were kept during the summer...
, Tennessee.

Chattanooga 1864
During the American Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
, Chattanooga was a center of battle. During the Chickamauga Campaign, Union
Union Army

The Union Army was the army that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S....
 artillery bombarded Chattanooga
Second Battle of Chattanooga

The Second Battle of Chattanooga was a battle in the American Civil War, beginning on August 21, 1863, as the opening battle in the Chickamauga Campaign....
 as a diversion and occupied it on September 9, 1863. Following the Battle of Chickamauga
Battle of Chickamauga

The Battle of Chickamauga, fought September 19–20, 1863, marked the end of a Union Army offensive in south-central Tennessee and northwestern Georgia called the Chickamauga Campaign....
, the defeated Union Army retreated to safety in Chattanooga. On November 23, 1863, the Battles for Chattanooga
Chattanooga Campaign

The Chattanooga Campaign was a series of maneuvers and battles in October and November 1863, during the American Civil War. Following the defeat of Major general William S....
 began when Union
Union Army

The Union Army was the army that fought for the Union during the American Civil War. It was also known as the Federal Army, the U.S....
 forces led by Maj. Gen.
Major general (United States)

In the United States Army, United States Marine Corps, and United States Air Force, major general is a 2 star rank general officer rank, with the U.S....
 Ulysses S. Grant
Ulysses S. Grant

Ulysses S. Grant, born Hiram Ulysses Grant , was an United States general and the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States ....
 reinforced troops at Chattanooga and advanced to Orchard Knob against Confederate
Confederate States Army

The Confederate States Army was a military organization whose primary mission was to provide the necessary forces and capabilities to support the National Security and defense of the Confederate States of America during its brief existence from 1861 to 1865....
 troops besieging the city. The next day, the Battle of Lookout Mountain
Battle of Lookout Mountain

The Battle of Lookout Mountain was fought November 24, 1863, as part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War. Union forces under Major general Joseph Hooker assaulted Lookout Mountain, Chattanooga, Tennessee, and defeated Confederate States Army forces commanded by Maj....
 was fought, driving the Confederates off the mountain. On November 25, Grant's army routed the Confederates in the Battle of Missionary Ridge
Battle of Missionary Ridge

The Battle of Missionary Ridge was fought November 25, 1863, as part of the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War. Following the Union Army victory in the Battle of Lookout Mountain on November 24, Union forces under Major general Ulysses S....
. These battles were followed the next spring by the Atlanta Campaign
Atlanta Campaign

The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta, Georgia, during the summer of 1864, leading to the eventual fall of Atlanta and hastening the end of the American Civil War....
, beginning just over the nearby state line in Georgia
Georgia (U.S. state)

Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
 and moving southeastward.

After the war ended, the city became a major railroad hub
Transportation hub

A transport hub or transport interchange is a location where passengers and cargo are exchanged across several mode of transport. Hubs make out the center of spoke-hub distribution paradigms, allowing passengers and cargo to be transported from one place to another without a direct service....
 and industrial
Heavy industry

Heavy industry does not have a single fixed meaning as compared to light industry. It can mean production of products which are either heavy in weight or in the processes leading to their production....
 and manufacturing center. By the 1930s it was known as the "Dynamo of Dixie", inspiring the 1941 Glenn Miller
Glenn Miller

Alton Glenn Miller , was an United States jazz musician, arranger, composer, and band leader in the Swing era. He was one of the best-selling recording artists from 1939 to 1942, leading one of the best known "Big band"....
 big-band swing song "Chattanooga Choo Choo
Chattanooga Choo Choo

"Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a big-band/swing music song which was featured in the 1941 in film movie Sun Valley Serenade, which stared Sonja Henie, Glenn Miller and his orchestra, The Modernaires, Milton Berle and Joan Davis....
". The same mountains that provided Chattanooga's scenic backdrop became shrouded by the industrial pollutants that they trapped and held over the community.

In 1969, the federal government declared that Chattanooga's air was the dirtiest in the nation. But environmental crises were not the only problems plaguing the city. Like other early industrial cities, Chattanooga entered the 1980s with serious socioeconomic challenges, including job layoffs due to deindustrialization, a deteriorating city infrastructure, racial tensions and social division.

In recent years, private and governmental resources have been invested in transforming the city's tarnished image. They have worked to revitalize its downtown and riverfront areas, making use of its natural resources. An early cornerstone of this project was the restoration of the historic Walnut Street Bridge
Walnut Street Bridge (Tennessee)

The Walnut Street Bridge is a truss bridge that spans the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee.Built in 1890, it was the first to connect Chattanooga's downtown with the North Shore....
. The Walnut Street Bridge is the oldest surviving bridge of its kind in the Southeastern United States.

Efforts to improve the city include the "21st Century Waterfront Plan" - a $120 million redevelopment of the Chattanooga waterfront and downtown area. The Tennessee Aquarium has become a major waterfront attraction that has helped to spur neighborhood development. Within the last ten years the city has won three national awards for outstanding "livability", and nine Gunther Blue Ribbon Awards for excellence in housing and consolidated planning.

Economy


The local economy includes a diversified mix of manufacturing and service industries.

Notable Chattanooga businesses include BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee

BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee is the largest health benefits company in Tennessee. It is an independent, not-for-profit organization governed by its own board of directors....
, CBL & Associates, The Chattanooga Bakery, Chattem
Chattem

Chattem is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based producer and marketer of over-the-counter healthcare products, toiletries, dietary supplements, topical analgesics, and medicated skin care products....
, the world's first Coca-Cola
Coca-Cola

Coca-Cola is a carbonation soft drink sold in stores, restaurants and vending machines worldwide . It is produced by The Coca-Cola Company in Atlanta, Georgia, and is often referred to simply as Coke or as Cola or Pop....
 bottling plant, Coker Tire
Coker Tire

Coker Tire Company is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based company that sells obsolete Michelin, Firestone Tire and Rubber Company, BF Goodrich and US Royal Tire#Bias and radial whitewall tires for collector automobiles....
, Coptix
Coptix

Founded as Cross Computer Consulting on January 1, 1999 and incorporated as Coptix Inc. on January 1, 2002, Coptix is a Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee based graphic design, web design, and web development company with clients such as Rock/Creek, Chattem, redbox, Olan Mills Portrait Studios, Hardees, Gold Bond medicated powder, Ultras...
, Covenant Transport
Covenant Transport

Covenant Transport, Inc.is a truckload carrier headquartered in Chattanooga, TN. It was started in 1985 with 25 trucks and 50 trailers. Today, coupled with its partners, they now have over 3,600 trucks and 9,500 trailers....
, Double Cola
Double Cola

Double Cola is the name of a soft drink and the company that manufactures Double Cola....
, Gordon Biersch Brewery Restaurant Group
Gordon Biersch Brewing Company

Gordon Biersch Brewery is an United States brewery founded by Dan Gordon and Dean Biersch. Gordon, a graduate from the five-year brewing engineering program at Weihenstephan, and Biersch opened their first brewery restaurant in Palo Alto, California in July 1988....
, Krystal
Krystal (restaurant)

Krystal is an United States fast food restaurant chain known for small, square hamburgers, and unique breakfast food items like the "Scrambler" - a mixture of Egg s, sausage, and other items such as pancakes or grits....
, Litespeed
Litespeed

Litespeed is a USA bicycle manufacturer in founded by David Lynskey Chattanooga, Tennessee It made its first bicycle in 1986. Litespeed makes titanium-framed road racing bicycles and mountain bikes....
, Miller & Martin
Miller & Martin

Miller & Martin PLLC is a large Southeastern law firm with offices in Atlanta, Georgia, and Nashville, Tennessee, and a main office in Chattanooga, Tennessee....
, National Model Railroad Association
National Model Railroad Association

The National Model Railroad Association, or NMRA, is a non-profit organization for those involved in the hobby or business of model railroading....
, Olan Mills, Inc., Republic Parking System
Republic Parking System

Republic Parking System is a privately owned professional parking management company based in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The company operates over 690 parking facilities in 87 US cities....
, Rock/Creek
Rock/Creek

Rock/Creek is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based sporting goods retailer of clothing and gear for rock climbing, paddling, trail running, hiking, camping and travel....
, Tennessee Valley Authority
Tennessee Valley Authority

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, Flood, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression....
 (TVA), Tricycle Inc.
Tricycle Inc.

Tricycle Inc. is a sustainable design company founded in 2002 in the United States to serve the creative product lifecycle of the interior design and architecture professions and their suppliers....
, and Unum. The city also hosts large branch offices of Cigna
CIGNA

CIGNA Corporation is a Philadelphia-based health service company. The Philadelphia headquarters are located in Two Liberty Place....
, AT&T
AT&T

AT&T Inc. is the largest US provider of both local and long distance telephone services, and Digital subscriber line Internet access. AT&T is the second largest provider of wireless service in the United States, with over 77 million wireless customers, and more than 150 million total customers....
 and UBS
UBS AG

UBS Aktiengesellschaft is a diversified global financial services company, with its main headquarters in Basel and Z?rich, Switzerland. It is the world's largest manager of private wealth assets, "the world's biggest manager of other people's money" and is also the second-largest bank in Europe, by both market capitalisation and profitabil...
. McKee Foods Corporation, maker of Little Debbie brand snack cakes, is a privately held, family-run company headquartered in nearby Collegedale, Tennessee
Collegedale, Tennessee

Collegedale is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 6,514 at the 2000 census.Collegedale is a suburb of Chattanooga, Tennessee and is part of the Chattanooga, TN–Georgia Chattanooga metropolitan area....
.

Notable companies that have manufacturing or distribution facilities in the city include Alstom
Alstom

Alstom is a large France multinational company list of conglomerates which holds interests in the electricity generation and transport markets....
, BASF
BASF

BASF SE is a German chemical company and the largest chemical company in the world. BASF originally stood for Badische Anilin- und Soda-Fabrik ....
, DuPont
DuPont

E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Company is an United States chemical industry that was founded in July 1802 as a gunpowder mill by Eleuth?re Ir?n?e du Pont....
, Invista
INVISTA

Invista, headquartered in Wichita, Kansas is the world's largest integrated fiber, resin and intermediates company. DuPont originally formed the company as a subsidiary in 2003 from its textile fibers division and named it DuPont Textiles and Interiors while a permanent identity was established....
, Komatsu
Komatsu

orKomatsu is a Japanese company that manufactures construction, mining, and military equipment, industry machinery such as press machines, lasers, and thermoelectric modules....
, Rock-Tenn
Rock-Tenn

Rock-Tenn Company is a paper and packaging manufacturer based in Norcross, Georgia. Rock-Tenn provides a wide range of marketing and packaging solutions to consumer products companies....
, Plantronics
Plantronics

Plantronics is a hardware company based in Santa Cruz, California, that specializes in lightweight Headset and is the market leader worldwide....
, Domtar
Domtar

Domtar Corporation is the largest integrated producer of uncoated freesheet paper in North America and the second largest in the world based on production capacity, and is also a manufacturer of papergrade pulp....
 Corp., Norfolk Southern, Alco Chemical
Akzo Nobel

Akzo Nobel N.V., trading as AkzoNobel, is a multinational company, active in the fields of decorative paints, performance coatings and specialty chemicals....
, Colonial Pipeline
Colonial Pipeline

Colonial Pipeline, headquartered in Alpharetta, Georgia, Georgia , delivers a daily average of 100 million gallons of gasoline, home heating oil, avgas and other refined petroleum products to communities and businesses throughout the Southern United States and Eastern United States....
 and Buzzi Unicem
Buzzi Unicem

Buzzi Unicem S.p.A. is an Italy company, quoted on the Borsa Italiana, which produces cement, ready-mix concrete and construction aggregates. Its headquarters are in the town of Casale Monferrato which was once known as the Italian ?cement capital?....
. The William Wrigley Jr. Company has a prominent presence in Chattanooga, now the sole production facility for Altoids
Altoids

Altoids are a brand of breath mints that have existed since the turn of the 19th century. Altoids are less popular in United Kingdom?their country of origin?than in the regions to which they are exported....
 breath mint products. There is also a Vulcan Materials quarry in center of the city.

On July 15 2008, Volkswagen Group of America announced plans to build its new production facility in Chattanooga. The $1 billion plant, due to open in 2011, will serve as the group's North American manufacturing headquarters.

In addition to corporate business interests, there are many retail shops in Chattanooga, including three shopping malls: Hamilton Place Mall
Hamilton Place Mall

Hamilton Place is an enclosed, two-story shopping mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was the largest shopping mall in the state of Tennessee when it opened in 1987.....
 in East Brainerd, Northgate Mall
Northgate Mall (Hixson)

Northgate Mall is an enclosed shopping mall in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in suburban Hixson, Tennessee. Opened on March 15 1972, it was the second mall built in Chattanooga, Tennessee....
 in Hixson, and Eastgate Town Center in Brainerd.

Utilities

Electric
Electricity

Electricity is a general term that encompasses a variety of phenomena resulting from the presence and flow of electric charge. These include many easily recognizable phenomena such as lightning and static electricity, but in addition, less familiar concepts such as the electromagnetic field and electromagnetic induction....
 power for most of the city and surrounding area is provided by the city-run Electric Power Board (EPB), which also provides telephone
Telephone

The telephone is a telecommunications device that is used to transmitter and receive electronically or digitally encoded sound between two or more people conversing....
 and high-speed internet
Broadband Internet access

Broadband Internet access, often shortened to just broadband, is high data rate Internet access?typically contrasted with Dial-up internet access over a 56k modem....
 service to businesses in the downtown area. The TVA
Tennessee Valley Authority

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, Flood, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression....
 operates the nearby Sequoyah Nuclear Power Plant, Chickamauga Dam
Chickamauga Dam

Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal era initiative to improve navigation and bring flood control and economic development to the Tennessee Valley....
 and the Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant
Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant

Raccoon Mountain Pumped-Storage Plant is a pumped-storage hydroelectricity hydroelectricity underground power station power station in Marion County, Tennessee, just west of Chattanooga, Tennessee in the U.S....
 all of which provide electricity to the greater Chattanooga area.

Natural gas
Natural gas

Natural gas is a gas consisting primarily of methane. It is found associated with fossil fuels, in coal beds, as methane clathrates, and is created by methanogenic organisms in marshes, bogs, and landfills....
 and water
Water

Water is a common chemical substance that is essential for the survival of all known forms of life. In typical usage, water refers only to its liquid form or States of matter, but the substance also has a solid state, ice, and a gaseous state, water vapor or steam....
 are provided by the privately run Chattanooga Gas Company
AGL Resources

AGL Resources, Inc. is a Fortune 1000, Forbes 2000 energy services holding company. Their principal business is distribution of natural gas in Florida, Georgia , Maryland, New Jersey, Tennessee and Virginia, providing gas for more than 2.2 million customers....
 and Tennessee-American Water Company, respectively. In 2005 Mayor Ron Littlefield
Ron Littlefield

Ron Littlefield is an United States of America Politics of the United States and the current mayor of Chattanooga of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was elected via a run-off election in 2005 after a long term as a city councilman....
 stated his desire for the city to purchase the Tennessee-American Water Company,, which is being sold in a public offering in 2007. Former Mayor Jon Kinsey
Jon Kinsey

Jon Kinsey was mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee from 1997 to 2001. During his mayorship he is remembered primarily for his role in unsuccessfully trying to buy Tennessee-American Water Company, which provides the majority of water to Chattanooga....
 attempts to have the city buy control were defeated in court.

Comcast
Comcast

Comcast Corporation is the largest cable television company, the second largest Internet service provider and the fourth largest telephone service provider in the United States....
 is the cable
Cable television

Cable television is a system of providing television to consumers via radio frequency signals transmitted to televisions through fixed optical fibers or coaxial cables as opposed to the over-the-air method used in traditional television broadcasting in which a television antenna is required....
 provider for most areas of the city. The incumbent telephone company
Incumbent local exchange carrier

ILEC, short for incumbent local exchange carrier Common carrier, is a local telephone company in the United States that was in existence at the time of Bell System divestiture into the Regional Bell Operating Companies , also known as the "Baby Bells." The ILEC is the former Bell System or Independent Telephone Company responsible for p...
 is AT&T
AT&T

AT&T Inc. is the largest US provider of both local and long distance telephone services, and Digital subscriber line Internet access. AT&T is the second largest provider of wireless service in the United States, with over 77 million wireless customers, and more than 150 million total customers....
. However, competing phone companies, cellular phones and VoIP are beginning to make inroads. A major interstate fiber optics line operated by AT&T
AT&T

AT&T Inc. is the largest US provider of both local and long distance telephone services, and Digital subscriber line Internet access. AT&T is the second largest provider of wireless service in the United States, with over 77 million wireless customers, and more than 150 million total customers....
 traverses the city, making its way from Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
 to Cincinnati
Cincinnati, Ohio

Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
.

Politics, government and law

The current mayor is Ron Littlefield
Ron Littlefield

Ron Littlefield is an United States of America Politics of the United States and the current mayor of Chattanooga of Chattanooga, Tennessee. He was elected via a run-off election in 2005 after a long term as a city councilman....
, a long-time city council
City council

A city council is a form of local government, usually covering a city or other urban area, such as a town. The system of government has roots back at least to the Roman Empire....
man, who was elected in a run-off election in April 2005. Mayor Littlefield was relected to a second term on March 3, 2009.

The city operates under a charter granted by the state legislature
Tennessee General Assembly

The Tennessee General Assembly is the state legislature of the U.S. state of Tennessee....
 in 1852, as amended. As of 2005, the city operates with a strong mayor system.

The city's legislative branch is split up into nine districts, with a council member for each district selected in partisan elections. The current council members are Linda Bennett (District 1), Sally Robinson (District 2), Dan Page (District 3), Jack Benson (District 4), John "Duke" Franklin (District 5), Carol Berz (District 6), Manuel "Manny" Rico (District 7), Leamon Pierce (District 8) and Debbie Gaines (District 9).

See also List of Mayors of Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Education


Primary and secondary education

Most of Chattanooga's primary and secondary education is funded by the government. The public school
Public school

The term public school has two distinct meanings depending on the location of usage:* in the United States, Australia and Canada: A school funded from tax revenue and most commonly administered to some degree by government or local government agencies....
s in Chattanooga (and Hamilton County) fall under the purview of the Hamilton County School System. The Howard School
Howard School of Academics and Technology

----Howard School of Academics and Technology is a co-educational public magnet school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Dr....
, now a magnet school
Magnet school

In education in the United States, magnet schools are public schools with specialized Course or Curriculum.Although the term is mostly used in the United States, other countries have similar types of schools, such as specialist schools in United Kingdom....
, was the first public school in the area, established in 1865 after the Civil War. The Chattanooga School for the Arts and Sciences is another public magnet school.

In addition, the city is home to several well-known private and parochial secondary schools, including Baylor School
Baylor School

Baylor School is a co-educational Private school secondary school on the outskirts of Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee. Founded in 1893, and at the same 670-acre hillside site by the Tennessee River since 1915, the school has gone through several incarnations: moving from an all-male, military academy to today's coeducational college prep sc...
, McCallie School, Girls Preparatory School
Girls Preparatory School

Girls Preparatory School, often called simply GPS, is an all-female college University-preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. It was founded in 1906 by Miss Grace McCallie, Miss Tommie Payne Duffy, and Miss Eula Lea Jarnagin....
, Chattanooga Christian School
Chattanooga Christian School

Chattanooga Christian School is a preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee. With an average enrollment over 1000 students, it is the largest private school in Hamilton County, Tennessee....
, and Notre Dame High School
Notre Dame High School (Chattanooga)

For schools of the same name, see Notre Dame High School.Notre Dame High School is a coeducational, Catholic college preparatory school in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States....
. Brainerd Baptist School is a small Christian elementary school. Siskin Children's Institute
Siskin Children's Institute

Siskin Children's Institute, a non-profit organization in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is an emerging leader in the field of early childhood special education....
 in Chattanooga is a specialized institution in the field of early childhood special education
Special education

Special education is the individually planned and systematically monitored arrangement of teaching procedures, adapted equipment and materials, accessible settings, and other interventions designed to help learners with special needs achieve a higher level of personal self-sufficiency and success in school and community than would be availabl...
.

Higher education

The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga is a university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee. The university, often referred to as UTC or simply "Chattanooga" , is one of three universities and two other affiliated institutions in the University of Tennessee System....
 is the second largest campus of the University of Tennessee System
University of Tennessee system

The University of Tennessee system is one of two public university systems in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It consists of three primary campuses in Knoxville, Tennessee, Chattanooga, Tennessee and Martin, Tennessee, a medical campus in Memphis, Tennessee and a research institute in Tullahoma, Tennessee....
, with a student population of over 9,558.. The University of the South at Sewanee lies about seventy miles north-west of Chattanooga. Chattanooga State Technical Community College
Chattanooga State Technical Community College

Chattanooga State Technical Community College is a comprehensive, regionally accredited, two year community college located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is a member of the Tennessee Board of Regents....
 and several religious schools are located here. Chattanooga also has a branch of the University of Tennessee College of Medicine, which provides medical education to medical students, residents, and other medical professionals in southeast Tennessee through an affiliation with Erlanger Health System.

Public library

As the name implies, the has been jointly operated by the city and county governments since 1976. The city was gifted with a Carnegie library
Carnegie library

Carnegie libraries are libraries which were built with money donated by Scottish-American businessman and philanthropist Andrew Carnegie. More than 2,500 Carnegie libraries were built, including those belonging to Public library and university library systems....
 in 1904, and the two-story purpose-built marble structure survives to this day at Eighth Street and Georgia Avenue as commercial office space. In 1939, the library moved to Douglas Street and McCallie Avenue and shared the new building with the John Storrs Fletcher Library of the University of Chattanooga. This building is now called Fletcher Hall and houses classrooms and offices for the University. The city library was moved to its third and current location in 1976 at the corner of Tenth and Broad streets.

Health care

Chattanooga's health care sector has three hospital systems. Erlanger Hospital is the area's primary trauma center. In 2008, Erlanger was named one of the nation's "Top 100 teaching hospitals for cardiovascular care" by Thomson Reuters
Thomson Reuters

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. Erlanger has been operated by the Chattanooga-Hamilton County Hospital Authority since 1976.

Parkridge Hospital is located east of downtown in the Glenwood District and is run by Tri-Star Healthcare. Tri-Star also operates East Ridge Medical Center in nearby East Ridge. Also located downtown is Memorial Hospital, operated by Catholic Health Initiatives
Catholic Health Initiatives

Catholic Health Initiatives is a faith-based, non-profit health system. It is the second largest Roman Catholicism health system in the United States and the fifth largest US health system overall....
). In 2004, Memorial was named one of the "Top 100 teaching hospitals" by Solucient Top Hospitals.

Culture and tourism


Museums


Chattanooga is the home to the Hunter Museum of American Art
Hunter Museum of American Art

The Hunter Museum of American Art is an art museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee. The museum's collections include works representing the Hudson River School, 19th century Genre works, American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, early modernism, Regionalism , and post World War II modern and contemporary art....
, a well known art museum. As birthplace of the tow truck
Tow truck

A tow truck , is a vehicle used to transport motor vehicles to another location , or to recover vehicles which are no longer on a drivable surface....
, Chattanooga is now home to the International Towing and Recovery Hall of Fame and Museum, as well as another transportation icon at the Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum , is a railway museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum was founded as a chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1960 by Paul H....
, the largest operating historic railroad in the south. Other notable museums include the Chattanooga Regional History Museum, the National Medal of Honor Museum, the Houston Museum, and the Chattanooga African American Museum.

Arts and literature


Chattanooga has a range of performing arts in different venues. Its historic Tivoli Theatre was renovated and is home to the Chattanooga Symphony and Opera, under the direction of Robert Bernhardt
Robert Bernhardt

Robert "Bob" Bernhardt is an United States Conducting, currently the musical director and conductor of the Chattanooga Symphony & Opera, and the principal pops conductor of the Louisville Orchestra....
.. The Chattanooga Theatre Centre offers 15 productions each year in three separate theater programs: the Mainstage, the Circle Theater, and the Youth Theater. Another popular performance venue is Memorial Auditorium.

Chattanooga hosts several writing conferences, including the Conference on Southern Literature and the Festival of Writers, both sponsored by the Arts & Education Council of Chattanooga.

Tourist attractions

Tennesseeaquarium
Chattanooga touts many tourist attractions, including the Tennessee Aquarium
Tennessee Aquarium

The Tennessee Aquarium, located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is the second largest freshwater aquarium in the world. The Tennessee Aquarium's River Journey and Ocean Journey buildings are home to more than 12,000 animals including fish, reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, birds, penguins, butterflies and more....
, caverns, and new waterfront attractions along and across the Tennessee River
Tennessee River

The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long and is located in the Southern United States in the Tennessee Valley....
. In the downtown area are the Chattanooga Choo Choo
Chattanooga Choo Choo

"Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a big-band/swing music song which was featured in the 1941 in film movie Sun Valley Serenade, which stared Sonja Henie, Glenn Miller and his orchestra, The Modernaires, Milton Berle and Joan Davis....
 Holiday Inn
Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn is a brand name applied to hotels within the InterContinental Hotels Group ....
 Hotel, housed in a renovated train station and exhibiting the largest HO model train layout in the United States. Also downtown are the Creative Discovery Museum
Creative Discovery Museum

The Creative Discovery Museum is a children's museum located in downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. The museum contains art, music, and field science areas, along with a water-themed zone called RiverPlay, a rooftop exhibit, an inventor's workshop, and a temporary exhibit space....
, a hands-on children's museum dedicated to science, art, and music; an IMAX 3D Theatre; and the newly expanded Hunter Museum of American Art
Hunter Museum of American Art

The Hunter Museum of American Art is an art museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee. The museum's collections include works representing the Hudson River School, 19th century Genre works, American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, early modernism, Regionalism , and post World War II modern and contemporary art....
. The Tennessee Riverwalk
Tennessee Riverwalk

The Tennessee Riverwalk is a 13-mile Riverwalk which parallels the Tennessee River from the Chickamauga Dam to downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is part of the Tennessee Riverpark System featuring the Tennessee Riverpark, Coolidge Park, Renaissance Park, Ross's Landing, and the Walnut Street Bridge ....
, a , has been developed along the river.

Across the river from downtown is the North Shore district, roughly bounded by the Olgiati Bridge to the West and Veterans Bridge to the East. The newly renovated area draws tourists to locally owned independent boutiques and restaurants, plus attractions along the Chattanooga Riverpark system, including Coolidge Park and Renaissance Park.

Not far from the downtown area is the Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park
Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park

The Chattanooga Zoo at Warner Park, formerly the Warner Park Zoo, is a small, zoo located in Warner Park in Downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee. The zoo is accredited by the Association of Zoos and Aquariums, and has been featured on the popular television show Ultimate Zoo on Animal Planet....
.

Parks and natural scenic areas provide other attractions. The red-and-black painted "See Rock City" barn
Barn

A barn is an agricultural building used for storage and as a covered workplace. It may sometimes be used to house animals or to store farming vehicles and equipment....
s along highway
Highway

A highway is a main road intended for travel by the public between important destinations, such as city and towns. Highway designs vary widely and can range from a two-lane road without margins to a multi-lane, grade separated freeway....
s in the Southeast are remnants of a now-classic Americana
Americana

Americana refers to artifacts of the culture of the United States, the history of the United States and folklore of the United States resultant from its westward expansion....
 tourism
Tourism

Tourism is travel for recreational or leisure purposes. The World Tourism Organization defines tourists as people who "travel to and stay in places outside their usual environment for not more than one consecutive year for leisure, business and other purposes not related to the exercise of an activity remunerated from...
 campaign to attract visitors to the Rock City
Rock City

Rock City is a roadside attraction near Chattanooga, Tennessee, on Lookout Mountain in Lookout Mountain, Georgia, located near Ruby Falls....
 tourist attraction
Tourist attraction

A tourist attraction is a place of interest where tourists visit, typically for its inherent or exhibited cultural value, historical significance, natural or built beauty, or amusement opportunities....
 in nearby Lookout Mountain, Georgia
Lookout Mountain, Georgia

Lookout Mountain is a city in Walker County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. The population was 1,617 at the 2000 census. The city is located on Lookout Mountain, home to such attractions as Rock City and Ruby Falls....
. The mountain is also the site of Ruby Falls
Ruby Falls

Ruby Falls is a 145-foot high underground waterfall located within Lookout Mountain, near Rock City and Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee in the United States....
 and Craven's House. The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway
Lookout Mountain Incline Railway

The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway is an inclined plane railway located along the side of Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga, Tennessee, in the United States....
 is a steep funicular railway that rises from the St. Elmo Historic District
St. Elmo Historic District

St. Elmo Historic District may refer to:* St. Elmo Historic District , List of RHPs in CO* St. Elmo Historic District , listed on the NRHP in Tennessee...
 to the top of the mountain, where passengers can visit the National Park Service
National Park Service

The National Park Service is the List of United States federal agencies that manages all List of areas in the United States National Park System, many U.S....
's Point Park and the Battles for Chattanooga Museum. Formerly known as Confederama, it contains a diorama that details the Battle of Chattanooga
Battle of Chattanooga

There were three Battles of Chattanooga fought in or near Chattanooga, Tennessee, during the American Civil War:* Chattanooga Campaign or the Battles for Chattanooga, Union Army Major general Ulysses S....
. From the military park, visitors can enjoy the panoramic views of Moccasin Bend
Moccasin Bend

Moccasin Bend Archaeological District is an archeological site in Tennessee that is included in the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park....
 and the Chattanooga skyline from the mountain's famous "point" or from vantage points along the well-marked trail system.

Near Chattanooga, the Raccoon Mountain Reservoir, Raccoon Mountain Caverns
Raccoon Mountain Caverns

Raccoon Mountain Caverns is one of two commercial caves located in Chattanooga, Tennessee/Hamilton County, Tennessee. The other commercial cave is Ruby Falls....
 and Reflection Riding Arboretum and Botanical Garden
Reflection Riding Arboretum and Botanical Garden

Reflection Riding Arboretum and Botanical Garden is a nonprofit arboretum, botanical garden, and historical site located at 400 Garden Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee....
 boast a number of outdoor and family fun opportunities. Other arboretums include Bonny Oaks Arboretum
Bonny Oaks Arboretum

Bonny Oaks Arboretum is an arboretum located at 6183 Adamson Circle, Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is open daily without charge.The arboretum is a small round park in front of the Dent House, now the Hamilton County Agriculture Center, whose gardens and some buildings date from the mid-19th century....
, Cherokee Arboretum at Audubon Acres
Cherokee Arboretum at Audubon Acres

The Cherokee Arboretum at Audubon Acres is an arboretum and natural area located in the East Brainerd neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tennessee. It became an official arboretum in 2003....
 and Cherokee Trail Arboretum
Cherokee Trail Arboretum

The Cherokee Trail Arboretum is an arboretum located in the North Chickamauga Greenway on the Tennessee Valley Authority's Chickamauga Reservation in Chattanooga, Tennessee....
. The Ocoee River, host to a number of events at the 1996 Atlanta Olympics, features rafting, kayaking, camping and hiking. Also just outside Chattanooga is the Lake Winnepesaukah
Lake Winnepesaukah

Lake Winnepesaukah is an amusement park located on Lakeview Drive in Lakeview, Georgia near Chattanooga, Tennessee. Winnepesaukah means "beautiful water." Carl and Minette Dixon opened the park to guests in 1925....
 amusement park. The Cumberland Trail
Cumberland Trail

The Cumberland Trail is a hiking trail following a line of ridges and gorges along the eastern escarpment of the Cumberland Plateau in Tennessee....
 begins in Signal Mountain, just outside of Chattanooga.

Festivals and events


Chattanooga hosts the Riverbend Festival
Riverbend Festival

The Riverbend Festival is an annual music festival in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Named for the bend in the Tennessee River on which Chattanooga is built, the festival features a wide array of performers representing different musical genres on various stages set up around the downtown area....
, an annual nine-day music festival held in June in the downtown area. One of the most popular events is the "Bessie Smith Strut", a one-night showcase of blues and jazz music named for the city's most noted blues singer. The annual "Southern Brewer's Festival" and the "River Roast" festival celebrate such traditional Southern staples as beer and barbecue.

New events, such as GoFest!, "Between the Bridges" wakeboard competition and Talespin attract new audiences. Back Row Films is a city-wide celebration of film co-sponsored by the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Arts & Education Council and UTC.

"Nightfall" is the free weekly concert series in Miller Plaza on Friday nights that continues to bring an eclectic mix of rock, blues, jazz, reggae, zydeco, funk, bluegrass, and folk to downtown Chattanooga from Memorial Day until the end of September. The Chattanooga Market
Chattanooga Market

The Chattanooga Market is the region's largest producer-only arts and crafts and farmers' market. It is held every Sunday from April to December at the open-air First Tennessee Pavilion in Chattanooga, Tennessee, typically from noon until 5pm ....
 features events all year round as part of the "Sunday at the Southside", including an Oktoberfest in mid-October.

The Chattanooga Dulcimer Festival, held each June, features workshops for mountain dulcimer, hammered dulcimer, and auto harp, among others, along with performances by champion performers from across the nation. Chattanooga is also the center of much bluegrass music. In 1935, as well as from 1993 to 1995, the city hosted the National Folk Festival
National Folk Festival (USA)

The National Folk Festival is an itinerant folk festival in the United States. Since 1934, it has been run by the National Council for the Traditional Arts and has been presented in 26 communities around the nation....
.

Sports


Chattanooga is the home of NCAA Division I Football Championship game, held at Max Finley Stadium
Finley Stadium

W. Max Finley Stadium; Gordon L. Davenport Field is the home stadium for the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga football team, the NCAA Division I Football Championship, UTC soccer, and various high school sports and musical concerts....
, south of downtown.

The Chattanooga Lookouts
Chattanooga Lookouts

The Chattanooga Lookouts are a minor league baseball team based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, United States. They are named for nearby Lookout Mountain....
, a Class AA
Minor league baseball

Minor league baseball is a hierarchy of professional baseball leagues in North America that compete at levels below that of Major League Baseball....
 Southern League
Southern League (baseball)

The Southern League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the Southern United States United States. It is classified a minor league baseball#AA league....
 baseball team affiliated with the Los Angeles Dodgers
Los Angeles Dodgers

The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles, USA. The team is in the Western Division of the National League. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of names before becoming the Brooklyn Dodgers circa 1911....
, boast a loyal following and respectable participation in season-end playoffs. Games take center stage at the downtown AT&T Field with tickets starting at only $4.

In 2007, the Head of the Hooch rowing regatta, a head race
Head race

A head race is a time trial rowing race typically held in the fall or early spring . In this form of racing, competitors race against the clock and the crew with the fastest time is deemed to be the winner....
 originally taking place on the Chattahoochee River
Chattahoochee River

The Chattahoochee River runs from the Chattahoochee Spring in the Appalachian Mountains of northeastern Georgia , near the Carolinas, to the southwestward to Atlanta and through its suburbs....
 in Atlanta, took place in downtown Chattanooga. With 1,330 boats in 2007, this was the 2nd largest regatta in the United States. The race took place in Chattanooga for the second time in 2008.

Outdoor sports


Due to its location at the junction of the Cumberland Plateau
Cumberland Plateau

The Cumberland Plateau is the southern part of the Appalachian Plateau. It includes much of eastern Kentucky and western West Virginia, part of Tennessee, and a small portion of northern Alabama and northwest Georgia ....
 and the southern Appalachians
Appalachian Mountains

The Appalachian Mountains or , often called the Appalachians, are a vast mountain range in eastern North America. Definitions vary on the precise boundaries of the Appalachians....
, Chattanooga has become a haven for outdoor sports such as hunting
Hunting

Hunting is the practice of pursuing living animals for food, recreation, or trade. In present-day use, the term refers to lawful hunting, as distinguished from poaching, which is the killing, trapping or capture of the hunted species contrary to law....
, fishing
Fishing

Fishing is the activity of catching fish. Fishing techniques include Fish net, Fish trap, Spearfishing, angling and Gathering seafood by hand. The term fishing may be applied to catching other aquatic animals such as different types of shellfish, squid, octopus, turtles, Edible frog and some edible marine invertebrates....
, trail running
Trail running

Trail running is a variant on running that differs markedly from road running and track running. Trail running generally takes place on hiking trails, most commonly single track trails, although fire roads are not uncommon....
, road running
Road running

Road running is the sport of running on a measured course over an established road . These events normally range from 5 km to long distance, such as half marathons and marathons, and may involve large numbers of runners or wheelchair entrants....
, adventure racing, rock climbing, mountain biking and road biking. The city boasts a number of outdoor clubs: Scenic City Velo, SORBA
SORBA

SORBA, the Southern Off-Road Bicycle Association, is an organization that builds and maintains mountain bike trails in the Southeastern United States of the United States....
-Chattanooga, The Wilderness Trail Running Association, and The Chattanooga Track Club. The city also funds Outdoor Chattanooga, an organization focused on promoting outdoor recreation. The city recently hired its first-ever bicycle coordinator to promote bicycling for transportation, recreation and active living.

Demographics


As of the census
Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring and recording information about the members of a given population. It is a regularly occurring and official count of a particular population....
 of 2000, there were 155,554 people, 65,499 households, and 39,626 families residing in the city. The population density
Population density

Population density is a measurement of population per unit area or unit volume. It is frequently applied to living organisms, and particularly to humans....
 was 1,150.5 people per square mile (444.2/km˛). There were 72,108 housing units at an average density of 533.3/sq mi (205.9/km˛). The racial makeup of the city was 59.71% White, 36.06% Black, or African American
Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, 0.29% Native American, 1.54% Asian, 0.11% Pacific Islander, 1.01% from other races
Race (United States Census)

Race and ethnicity in the United States Census, as defined by the United States Census Bureau and the Federal Office of Management and Budget , are Self-concept data items in which residents choose the Race in the United States or races with which they most closely identify, and indicate whether or not they are of Hispanic or Latino origin ....
, and 1.30% from two or more races. 2.11% of the population were Hispanic or Latino of any race. The 2006 revised estimated population was 168,293 which is an 8.4% percent increase over the original 2006 estimate.

There were 65,499 households out of which 25.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 39.2% were married couples
Marriage

Marriage is a social, spirituality, or law union of individuals. This union may also be called matrimony, while the ceremony that marks its beginning is usually called a wedding and the married status created is sometimes called wedlock....
 living together, 17.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 39.5% were non-families. 33.5% of all households were made up of individuals and 11.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.29 and the average family size was 2.92.

In the city the population was spread out with 22.4% under the age of 18, 10.8% from 18 to 24, 28.8% from 25 to 44, 22.8% from 45 to 64, and 15.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 37 years. For every 100 females there were 89.3 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 85.2 males.

The median income for a household in the city was $32,006, and the median income for a family was $41,318. Males had a median income of $31,375 versus $23,267 for females. The per capita income
Per capita income

Per capita income means how much each individual receives, in monetary terms, of the yearly income generated in the country. This is what each citizen is to receive if the yearly national income is divided equally among everyone....
 for the city was $19,689. About 14.0% of families and 17.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 27.0% of those under age 18 and 13.8% of those age 65 or over.

Chattanooga's Metropolitan Statistical Area
Chattanooga metropolitan area

The Chattanooga Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of six counties – three in southeast Tennessee and three in northwest Georgia – anchored by the city of Chattanooga, Tennessee....
, which includes Hamilton, Marion, and Sequatchie counties in Tennessee and Catoosa, Dade, and Walker counties in Georgia, had an estimated population of 496,704 in 2006. The Chattanooga-Cleveland-Athens Combined Statistical Area
Chattanooga-Cleveland-Athens combined statistical area

The Chattanooga-Cleveland-Athens Combined Statistical Area covers a total of nine counties – six in southeast Tennessee and three in northwest Georgia ....
 which also includes Bradley, Polk, and McMinn Counties in Tennessee had an estimated population of 658,201 in 2006.

Geography and climate

Tnmap Doton Chattanooga
The city is located at latitude 35°4' North, longitude 85°15' West.

According to the United States Census Bureau
United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau is the government agency that is responsible for the United States Census. It also gathers other national demographic and economic data....
, the city has a total area of 143.2 square miles (370.8 km˛), of which, 135.2 square miles (350.2 km˛) of it is land and 8.0 square miles (20.6 km˛) of it (5.56%) is water.

The most prominent natural features in and around Chattanooga are the Tennessee River
Tennessee River

The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long and is located in the Southern United States in the Tennessee Valley....
 and the surrounding highlands. The city is nestled between the southwestern Ridge-and-valley Appalachians
Ridge-and-valley Appalachians

The Ridge-and-Valley Appalachians, also called the Ridge and Valley Province or the Valley and Ridge Appalachians, are a Physiographic regions of the world of the larger Appalachian Mountains division and are also a belt within the Appalachian Mountains extending from northern New Jersey westward into Pennsylvania and southward...
 and the foot of Walden's Ridge; the river separates the ridge from the western side of downtown. Several miles east, the city is bisected by Missionary Ridge
Missionary Ridge

Missionary Ridge is a geographic feature in Chattanooga, Tennessee, site of the Battle of Missionary Ridge, a battle in the American Civil War, fought on November 25, 1863....
, which hosted an important battle of the American Civil War
American Civil War

The American Civil War , also known as the War Between the States and several Naming the American Civil War, was a civil war in the United States....
.

The Tennessee River is impounded by the TVA's
Tennessee Valley Authority

The Tennessee Valley Authority is a federally owned corporation in the United States created by congressional charter in May 1933 to provide navigation, Flood, electricity generation, fertilizer manufacturing, and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, a region particularly impacted by the Great Depression....
 Chickamauga Dam
Chickamauga Dam

Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal era initiative to improve navigation and bring flood control and economic development to the Tennessee Valley....
 north of the downtown area. Five automobile
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 bridge
Bridge

A bridge is a structure built to span a gorge, valley, road, Rail tracks, river, body of water, or any other physical obstacle, for the purpose of providing passage over the obstacle....
s, one railroad trestle
Trestle

A trestle is a rigid frame used as a support, or especially it is used also to refer to a path supported by a number of such braced frames, a number of short spans supported by splayed vertical elements usually for railroad use....
, and one pedestrian
Pedestrian

A pedestrian is a person travelling on foot, whether walking or running. In some communities, those traveling using roller skates, skateboards, and similar devices are also considered to be pedestrians....
 bridge cross the river.

Transport
Transport

Transport or transportation is the movement of passenger and cargo from one location to another. Transport is performed by various modes of transport, such as aviation, rail transport, road transport, ship transport, cable transport, pipeline transport and space transport....
 is served by Interstate 75
Interstate 75

Interstate 75 is a major north-south Interstate Highway in the midwest and southeastern United States. It travels from State Road 826 and State Road 924 in Hialeah, Florida, Florida to Sault Ste....
 to Atlanta
Atlanta, Georgia

Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
 and Knoxville
Knoxville, Tennessee

Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
, Interstate 24
Interstate 24

Interstate 24 is an Interstate Highway in the eastern United States. I-24 runs from Interstate 57 to Chattanooga, Tennessee, at Interstate 75....
 to Nashville
Nashville, Tennessee

Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
, and Interstate 59
Interstate 59

Interstate 59 is an Interstate Highway in the southern United States. Its southern terminus is near Slidell, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, at an intersection with Interstate 10 and Interstate 12, its northern terminus is at Wildwood, Georgia, at an intersection with Interstate 24....
 to Birmingham
Birmingham, Alabama

Birmingham is the largest city in the United States state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama. It also includes part of Shelby County, Alabama....
. Chattanooga and the surrounding area is served by Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport
Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport

Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport , also known as Lovell Field, is a public airport located five miles east of the central business district of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States....
. Rail freight is offered by CSX
CSX Transportation

CSX Transportation is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the CSX Corporation. It is one of the three Class I railroads serving most of the East Coast, the other two being the Norfolk Southern Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway....
 to Atlanta and Nashville, and Norfolk Southern to Atlanta, Birmingham, Cincinnati, Knoxville and Memphis.

Neighborhoods


In addition to the restoration of downtown, many of Chattanooga's neighborhoods have experienced a rebirth of their own. Chattanooga has many buildings on the National Register of Historic Places
National Register of Historic Places

The National Register of Historic Places is the United States government official list of districts, sites, buildings, structures, and objects deemed worthy of preservation....
, including three neighborhoods: Fort Wood, Ferger Place, and St. Elmo.
  • Alton Park
  • Avondale
  • Brainerd
  • Bushtown
  • Clifton Hills
  • East Brainerd
  • East Chattanooga
  • East Lake
  • East Ridge
  • Eastdale
  • Ferger Place
  • Fort Wood
    Fort Wood National Historic District

    The Fort Wood National Historic District is a historic neighborhood in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It is located just east of the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga campus, bounded roughly by Palmetto St., McCallie Av., Central Av., and Fifth St....
  • Glenwood
  • Highland Park
  • Jefferson Heights
  • Lookout Valley also known as Tiftonia and Wauhatchie
  • Lupton City
  • Missionary Ridge
  • North Chattanooga
  • Orchard Knob
  • Pineville
  • Riverview
  • Rossville (not to be confused with the nearby city of Rossville, Georgia
    Rossville, Georgia

    Rossville is a city in Walker County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. The city of Rossville was named after Cherokee Indian Chief John Ross who resided there until being forced to relocate to Oklahoma....
    )
  • Southside
  • St. Elmo
    St. Elmo Historic District

    St. Elmo Historic District may refer to:* St. Elmo Historic District , List of RHPs in CO* St. Elmo Historic District , listed on the NRHP in Tennessee...


    • Important suburbs

    • Collegedale, Tennessee
      Collegedale, Tennessee

      Collegedale is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 6,514 at the 2000 census.Collegedale is a suburb of Chattanooga, Tennessee and is part of the Chattanooga, TN–Georgia Chattanooga metropolitan area....
    • East Brainerd, Tennessee
      East Brainerd, Tennessee

      East Brainerd is a census-designated place in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 14,132 at the 2000 census....
    • East Ridge, Tennessee
      East Ridge, Tennessee

      East Ridge is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. As of the census, the city population was 20,640. East Ridge is bordered by Chattanooga, Tennessee to the west, north and east, and the Georgia state line to the south....
    • Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia
      Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia

      Fort Oglethorpe is a city in Catoosa County, Georgia County in the U.S. state of Georgia . The population was 6,940 at the 2000 census – 6,755 of the city's 6,940 residents lived in Catoosa County and 185 in Walker County....
    • Harrison, Tennessee
      Harrison, Tennessee

      Harrison is a census-designated place in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 7,630 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Chattanooga, Tennessee, TN–Georgia Chattanooga metropolitan area....
  • Hixson, Tennessee
    Hixson, Tennessee

    Hixson is an unincorporated area in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. It is a northern suburb of Chattanooga, Tennessee and is part of the Chattanooga, TN–Georgia Chattanooga metropolitan area....
  • Lookout Mountain, Georgia
    Lookout Mountain, Georgia

    Lookout Mountain is a city in Walker County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. The population was 1,617 at the 2000 census. The city is located on Lookout Mountain, home to such attractions as Rock City and Ruby Falls....
  • Lookout Mountain, Tennessee
    Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

    Lookout Mountain is a town in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 2,000 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Chattanooga, Tennessee, TN–Georgia Chattanooga metropolitan area....
  • Ooltewah, Tennessee
    Ooltewah, Tennessee

    Ooltewah is a census-designated place in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 5,681 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Chattanooga, Tennessee, TN–Georgia Chattanooga metropolitan area....
  • Red Bank, Tennessee
    Red Bank, Tennessee

    Red Bank is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 12,418 at the 2000 census. Red Bank is an enclave; its area is completely surrounded by that of Chattanooga, Tennessee....
  • Ridgeside, Tennessee
    Ridgeside, Tennessee

    Ridgeside is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 389 at the 2000 census. Ridgeside is an enclave; its area is completely surrounded by the jurisidiction of Chattanooga, Tennessee....
  • Ringgold, Georgia
    Ringgold, Georgia

    Ringgold is a city in Catoosa County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. The population was 2,422 at the 2000 census. The city is the county seat of Catoosa County, Georgia....
  • Rossville, Georgia
    Rossville, Georgia

    Rossville is a city in Walker County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. The city of Rossville was named after Cherokee Indian Chief John Ross who resided there until being forced to relocate to Oklahoma....
  • Signal Mountain, Tennessee
    Signal Mountain, Tennessee

    Signal Mountain is a town in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The town is a suburb of Chattanooga, Tennessee and is often mistaken to be in Chattanooga....
  • Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee
    Soddy-Daisy, Tennessee

    Soddy-Daisy is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 11,530 at the 2000 census. The City was formed in 1969 when the communities of Soddy and Daisy, along with nearby developed areas along U.S....
  • Walden, Tennessee
    Walden, Tennessee

    Walden is a town located atop Signal Mountain in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 1,960 at the 2000 census....


    • Climate

    Monthly Normal and Record High and Low Temperatures
    Month Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec
    Rec High °F/°C 78/26 79/26 87/31 93/34 99/37 104/40 109/43 105/41 102/39 94/34 84/29 78/26
    Norm High °F/°C 49/9 54/12 62/17 72/22 79/26 86/30 90/32 89/32 83/28 72/22 61/16 52/11
    Norm Low °F/°C 30/-1 33/1 40/4 47/8 56/13 65/18 69/21 68/20 62/17 49/9 40/4 33/1
    Rec Low °F/°C -10/-23 1/-17 8/-13 25/-4 34/1 41/5 51/11 50/10 36/2 22/-6 4/-16 -2/-19
    Precip in./mm 5.40/137 4.85/123 6.19/157 4.23/107 4.28/109 3.99/101 4.73/120 3.59/91 4.31/109 3.26/83 4.88/124 4.81/122
    Source: USTravelWeather.com
    According to the National Weather Service
    National Weather Service

    The National Weather Service , once known as the Weather Bureau, is one of the six scientific agencies that make up the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of the United States Federal government of the United States....
     in Morristown, Tennessee
    Morristown, Tennessee

    Morristown is a city in and the county seat of Hamblen County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. A small portion of the city extends into Jefferson County....
     (which has responsibility for all of east Tennessee
    East Tennessee

    East Tennessee is a name given to approximately the eastern third of the U.S. state of Tennessee, one of the three Grand Divisions defined in state law....
    ), the heaviest snow
    Snow

    Snow is a type of precipitation in the form of crystalline water ice, consisting of a multitude of snowflakes that fall from clouds. The process of this precipitation is called snowfall....
    fall in Chattanooga (both by storm
    Winter storm

    A winter storm is an event in which the dominant varieties of precipitation are forms that only occur at cold temperatures, such as snow or sleet, or a rainstorm where ground temperatures are cold enough to allow ice to form ....
     total and 24-hour period) was during the Great Blizzard of 1993. The most snow in one season was in 1894-95. The coldest temperature ever recorded was in 1899, 1966, and 1985 (on Feb. 13, Jan. 31 and 21, respectively).

    Transportation


    Considered to be a gateway to the Deep South
    Deep South

    The Deep South is a descriptive category of cultural and geographic subregions in the Southern United States. Historically, it is differentiated from the "Upper South" as being the states which were most dependent on plantation type agriculture during the antebellum period....
    , Chattanooga's transportation infrastructure has developed into a complex and intricate system of railroads, streets, airports and waterways.

    Principal highways

    • I-24
      Interstate 24

      Interstate 24 is an Interstate Highway in the eastern United States. I-24 runs from Interstate 57 to Chattanooga, Tennessee, at Interstate 75....
    • I-75
      Interstate 75

      Interstate 75 is a major north-south Interstate Highway in the midwest and southeastern United States. It travels from State Road 826 and State Road 924 in Hialeah, Florida, Florida to Sault Ste....
    • US-27 North (formerly I-124
      Interstate 124

      Interstate 124 is an unsigned designation for a short segment of a 4-lane limited access highway located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. During periods where this two miles long segment of U.S....
      )
    • State Route 153
    See also List of Tennessee state highways
    List of Tennessee state highways

    This is the list of Tennessee state routes. Unlike the U.S. Highway system and some other State highway systems, Tennessee's highways do not follow a systematic numbering system....


    Major surface routes

    • Brainerd Road/Lee Highway
      Lee Highway

      The Lee Highway was a National Auto Trail in the United States connecting New York City and San Francisco, California via the South and Southwest ....
       (U.S. 11)/(U.S. 64)
    • Broad Street
    • Cummings Highway (US 41
      U.S. Route 41

      U.S. Route 41 is a north-south United States Numbered Highways that runs from the Upper Peninsula of Michigan to Miami, Florida. Until 1949, the part in southern Florida, from Naples, Florida to Miami, was U.S....
      )/(US 72
      U.S. Route 72

      U.S. Route 72 is an east-west United States highway that runs for 337 miles from southeast Tennessee through northern Alabama and northern Mississippi to southwest Tennessee....
      )
    • Dayton Blvd (U.S. 27 North)
    • East Brainerd Road
    • Georgia Avenue
    • Hixson Pike
    • Main Street (U.S. 76)
    • McCallie Avenue
    • Ringgold Road
    • Rossville Boulevard (U.S. 27)
    • Signal Mountain Boulevard (U.S. 127/Corridor J
      Corridor J

      Corridor J is a highway in the U.S. states of Tennessee and Kentucky. It is part of the Appalachian Development Highway System, running from the end of Interstate 124 in Chattanooga, Tennessee north to Interstate 75 in London, Kentucky....
      )


    Tunnels


    • Bachmann Tubes, (also unofficially known as The East Ridge Tunnels), which carry Ringgold Road into the neighboring city of East Ridge
      East Ridge, Tennessee

      East Ridge is a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. As of the census, the city population was 20,640. East Ridge is bordered by Chattanooga, Tennessee to the west, north and east, and the Georgia state line to the south....
      .
    • Missionary Ridge Tunnels (also unofficially known as McCallie or Brainerd Tunnels), which carry McCallie and Bailey Avenues through Missionary Ridge where the route continues as Brainerd Road.
    • Stringer's Ridge Tunnel, which carries Cherokee Boulevard through Stringer's Ridge where the route continues as Dayton Boulevard.
    • Wilcox Tunnel, which carries Wilcox Boulevard through Missionary Ridge and connects to Shallowford Road.


    Public transit


    The city is served by a publicly run bus company, the Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority
    Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority

    The Chattanooga Area Regional Transportation Authority is the mass transit provider for Chattanooga, Tennessee and vicinity.Public transportation first appeared on the streets of Chattanooga in 1875, utilizing horsecar....
    . CARTA operates 17 routes, including a free electric shuttle service in the downtown area and free wireless internet
    WIFI

    WIFI is a radio station broadcasting a Variety radio format. Licensed to Florence, New Jersey, USA. The station is currently owned by Forsythe Broadcasting....
     on certain "smartbuses"..

    Railroad lines

    Chattanooga Choo Choo Train
    Despite a new emphasis on the technology and service sectors, Chattanooga maintains ties to the past and still serves as a major freight hub with Norfolk Southern (NS) and CSX running trains on their own (and each other's) lines. The Norfolk Southern Railway's enormous DeButts Yard is just east of downtown
    Downtown

    File:Chicago_skyline_march2006c.jpgDowntown is a term primarily used in North America to refer to a city's core or central business district, usually in a geographical, commercial, and community sense....
    , Shipp's Yard and CSX's Wauhatchie Yard are southwest of the city. Indeed, the two railroad companies are among the largest individual landowners in the city (the Federal Government is another). The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
    Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

    The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum , is a railway museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum was founded as a chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1960 by Paul H....
    , the largest historic operating railroad in the South
    Southern United States

    The Southern United States—commonly referred to as the American South, Dixie, or simply the South—constitutes a large distinctive region in the southeastern and south-central United States....
    , and the Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway
    Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway

    Image:Chattooga & Chickamauga 103 05-14-04 022.jpg? The Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway is a short-line railroad which is headquartered in LaFayette, Georgia....
     also provides railroad service in Chattanooga.

    Since both NS and CSX both run through Chattanooga, here are the lines that run through the town (the AAR
    Association of American Railroads

    The Association of American Railroads is an industry trade group representing primarily the major freight Rail transport of North America . Amtrak and some regional Commuter rail in North America are also members....
     codes are used for the following railroads: NS for Norfolk Southern, CSXT for CSX Transportation
    CSX Transportation

    CSX Transportation is a Class I railroad in the United States, owned by the CSX Corporation. It is one of the three Class I railroads serving most of the East Coast, the other two being the Norfolk Southern Railway and Canadian Pacific Railway....
    , TNVR for Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum
    Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum

    The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum , is a railway museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee.The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum was founded as a chapter of the National Railway Historical Society in 1960 by Paul H....
    , and CCKY for Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway
    Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway

    Image:Chattooga & Chickamauga 103 05-14-04 022.jpg? The Chattooga and Chickamauga Railway is a short-line railroad which is headquartered in LaFayette, Georgia....
    ):
    • CSXT - Western & Atlantic Subdivision
      Western and Atlantic Railroad

      The Western and Atlantic Railroad is a historic railroad that operated in the southeastern United States from Atlanta, Georgia, Georgia to Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee....
       (Chattanooga to Atlanta, Georgia
      Atlanta, Georgia

      Atlanta is the Capital and most populous city in Georgia , as well as the 33rd largest city in the United States of America with a population of 519,145....
      )
      • Chattanooga Subdivision (Chattanooga to Nashville, Tennessee
        Nashville, Tennessee

        Nashville is the Capital of the U.S. state of Tennessee and the county seat of Davidson County, Tennessee. It is the second most populous city in the state after Memphis, Tennessee....
         on former NC&StL trackage)
    • NS - Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific, aka the Queen and Crescent Route (Chattanooga to Cincinnati, Ohio
      Cincinnati, Ohio

      Cincinnati is a city in the U.S. state of Ohio and the county seat of Hamilton County, Ohio. The municipality is located in southwestern Ohio and is situated on the Ohio River at the Ohio-Kentucky border....
       via Lexington, Kentucky
      Lexington, Kentucky

      Lexington is the second-largest city in Kentucky and the List of United States cities by population in the United States. Known as the "Thoroughbred City" and the "Horse Capital of the World," it is located in the heart of Kentucky's Bluegrass region....
      )
      • Alabama Great Southern
        Alabama Great Southern Railroad

        The Alabama Great Southern Railroad is a railroad in the U.S. states of Alabama, Georgia , Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. It is an operating subsidiary of the Norfolk Southern Corporation , running southwest from Chattanooga, TN to New Orleans, LA through Birmingham, AL and Meridian, MS....
         (Chattanooga to New Orleans, Louisiana
        New Orleans, Louisiana

        New Orleans is a major United States port city and the largest city in Louisiana. New Orleans is the center of the New Orleans metropolitan area metropolitan area, the largest metro area in the state....
         via Birmingham, Alabama
        Birmingham, Alabama

        Birmingham is the largest city in the United States state of Alabama and is the county seat of Jefferson County, Alabama. It also includes part of Shelby County, Alabama....
        )
      • Georgia Division (Chattanooga to Atlanta)
      • Tennessee Division (Chattanooga to Knoxville, Tennessee
        Knoxville, Tennessee

        Founded in 1786, Knoxville is the third-largest city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, behind Memphis, Tennessee and Nashville, Tennessee, and is the county seat of Knox County, Tennessee....
        )
      • Chattanooga Traction Company
        • North Chattanooga to Signal Mountain
        • Dry Valley Line (Red Bank to Lupton City)
    • TNVR - East Chattanooga to Grand Junction (3 miles)
      • East Chattanooga Belt Line Railroad (from Debutts Yard and 17th Street, across to Holtzclaw Avenue and East Chattanooga, used by TNVR)
    • CCKY - formerly the Tennessee Alabama & Georgia
      Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway

      The Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railroad was created through a reorganization of the Chattanooga Southern Railway in 1911. A few years later, in 1922, the line's name was changed to the Tennessee, Alabama and Georgia Railway and was also known as the TAG Route....
       line (Chattanooga to Hedges, Georgia)
      • formerly the Central of Georgia line (Chattanooga to Lyerly, Georgia
        Lyerly, Georgia

        Lyerly is a town in Chattooga County, Georgia, Georgia , United States. U.S. Census, the town population was 488....
        )
    Also, the Incline Railway, as well as being a tourist attraction, is sometimes used for commuting by Lookout Mountain residents, particularly during wintry weather, when travelling up and down the mountain could be very dangerous.

    Despite the relatively high level of freight rail activity, there is no passenger rail service in the city for either commuters or long-distance travelers.

    Bridges

    Walnut Street Bridge
    Being bisected by a major waterway, Chattanooga has several large bridges over the Tennessee River
    Tennessee River

    The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River. It is approximately 652 miles long and is located in the Southern United States in the Tennessee Valley....
    . They are, from west to east:

    • P.R. Olgiati Bridge – Named for a former mayor P.R. Olgiati, this bridge carries "27" from downtown to Dayton, Tennessee
      Dayton, Tennessee

      Dayton is a city in Rhea County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States. The population was 6,180 at the 2000 census. The Dayton, TN, Urban Cluster, which includes developed areas adjacent to the city and extends south to Graysville, had 9,050 people in 2000....
       and points northward.


    • Market Street Bridge
      Market Street Bridge (Chattanooga)

      The Market Street Bridge, officially referred to as the John Ross Bridge, is a bascule bridge that spans the Tennessee River between downtown Chattanooga, Tennessee and the Northshore District....
       - Officially called the John Ross
      John Ross (Cherokee chief)

      John Ross , also known as Guwisguwi , was Principal Chief of the Cherokee Native Americans in the United States Nation from 1828-1860. Described as the Moses of his people, Ross led the Nation through tumultuous years of development, relocation to Oklahoma, and the American Civil War....
       Bridge. It is a bascule
      Bascule bridge

      A bascule bridge is a moveable bridge with a counterweight that continuously balances the span, or "leaf," throughout the entire upward swing in providing clearance for boat traffic....
       span which is a type of drawbridge. The bridge was completed in 1917 for the then-astronomical sum of USD$1,000,000. Having stood for decades since its last major overhaul, the Tennessee Department of Transportation
      Tennessee Department of Transportation

      The Tennessee Department of Transportation monitors all road projects in the state of Tennessee. It is headquartered in Nashville, Tennessee, located at the confluence of three major Interstate Highways....
       declared it unsafe in late 2004. The bridge was closed in 2005 for a long-overdue renovation and reopened on August 4 2007.


    • Walnut Street Bridge
      Walnut Street Bridge (Tennessee)

      The Walnut Street Bridge is a truss bridge that spans the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee.Built in 1890, it was the first to connect Chattanooga's downtown with the North Shore....
       – Also known as "The Walking Bridge", it is one of the centerpieces of Chattanooga's urban renewal, and is the second longest pedestrian bridge in the nation. Over 115 years old, the bridge was declared unsafe and closed to traffic in 1978. It was on the verge of being demolished in the late 1980s when public demand led to it being restored as a pedestrian-only span that opened in 1993.


    • Veterans Memorial Bridge
      Veterans Memorial Bridge (Chattanooga)

      The Veterans Memorial Bridge is a steel girder bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It was built in 1984 and has a main span of 420 feet. It carries Georgia Avenue across the Tennessee River, and MacClellan Island, which is an animal sanctuary on an island on the river....
       – Installed in the mid 1980s, this structure has helped commuters from Hixson, Lupton City and other northern areas reach downtown quickly.


    • C.B. Robinson Bridge
      C.B. Robinson Bridge

      The C.B. Robinson Bridge is a bridge over Nickajack Lake on the Tennessee River carrying DuPont parkway . It was built in 1981....
       – This route carries Dupont Parkway from Amnicola Highway to Hixson Pike and Route 153.


    • Tennessee River Railroad Bridge
      Tennessee River Railroad Bridge

      The Tennessee River Railroad Bridge, also called "Tennbridge", is a vertical-lift rail transport bridge over the Tennessee River. It has a main span of , and is one of the longest vertical lift spans in the United States....
       – Also called "Tennbridge," this truss bridge
      Truss bridge

      A truss bridge is a bridge composed of connected elements which may be stressed from tension , physical compression, or sometimes both in response to dynamic loads....
       with a vertical lift carries the Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway
      Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway

      The Cincinnati, New Orleans and Texas Pacific Railway is a railroad that runs from Cincinnati, Ohio, south to Chattanooga, Tennessee, forming part of the Norfolk Southern Railway system....
       over the river and is a popular railfan
      Railfan

      A railfan or rail buff , railway enthusiast or railway buff , or trainspotter , is a person interested in an amateur capacity in rail transport....
       area.


    • Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge
      Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge

      The Wilkes T. Thrasher Bridge is a 4-lane road bridge located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. It opened in 1955 and carries State Highway 153 over the Chickamauga Dam crossing the Tennessee River....
       – Carries Highway 153 over Chickamauga Dam
      Chickamauga Dam

      Chickamauga Dam is a hydroelectric dam on the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA. The dam is owned and operated by the Tennessee Valley Authority, which built the dam in the late 1930s as part of a New Deal era initiative to improve navigation and bring flood control and economic development to the Tennessee Valley....
      .


    Air travel


    The Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport
    Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport

    Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport , also known as Lovell Field, is a public airport located five miles east of the central business district of Chattanooga, Tennessee, a city in Hamilton County, Tennessee, Tennessee, United States....
     offers non-stop service to various domestic destinations via regional and national airlines, including Delta Connection
    Delta Connection

    Delta Connection is the name under which a number of individually owned regional airlines and Comair operate short and medium haul routes in association with Delta Air Lines Inc....
    , American Airlines
    American Airlines

    American Airlines, Inc. is a major carrier of the United States. It is the world's largest airlines in passenger miles transported and passenger fleet size; second largest, behind FedEx Express, in aircraft operated; and second behind Air France-KLM in operating revenues....
    , US Airways
    US Airways

    US Airways, Inc., an operating unit of US Airways Group, is the fifth largest airline in the United States. A member of the Star Alliance, it has a fleet of 353 mainline jet aircraft and 319 regional jet and Turboprop aircraft connecting 200 destinations in North America, Central America, the Caribbean, Hawaii, and Europe....
    , Northwest Airlines
    Northwest Airlines

    Northwest Airlines, Inc. , a wholly-owned subsidiary of Delta Air Lines, Inc., is a major United States airline headquartered in Eagan, Minnesota, near Minneapolis-St....
     and Allegiant.

    Media and communications


    The city of Chattanooga is served by numerous local, regional and national media outlets which reach approximately 1,000,000 people in four states: Tennessee, Alabama
    Alabama

    Alabama is a state located in the Southern United States of the United States of America. It is bordered by Tennessee to the north, Georgia to the east, Florida and the Gulf of Mexico to the south, and Mississippi to the west....
    , Georgia
    Georgia (U.S. state)

    Georgia is a U.S. state in the United States and was one of the original Thirteen Colonies that revolted against United Kingdom rule in the American Revolution....
     and North Carolina
    North Carolina

    North Carolina is a U.S. state located on the Atlantic Seaboard in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north....
    .

    Newspapers


    The Chattanooga Times Free Press
    Chattanooga Times Free Press

    The Chattanooga Times Free Press is a daily broadsheet newspaper published in Chattanooga, Tennessee by Tom Griscom and is distributed in the metro Chattanooga region....
    , the area's only daily newspaper, is published each morning. It was effectively formed in 1999 from two papers that had been bitter rivals for half a century. The Times was once owned by Adolph Ochs
    Adolph Ochs

    Adolph Simon Ochs was an American newspaper publisher and former owner of The New York Times and The Chattanooga Times .Ochs was born to History of the Jews in Germany immigrants, Julius and Bertha Levy Ochs, in Cincinnati, Ohio, Ohio....
    , who later bought the New York Times. The Times had been the morning paper with a generally liberal editorial page. The News-Free Press, whose name was the result of an earlier merger, was an afternoon daily and its editorials were more conservative than those in the Times. In 1999, the Free Press was bought by an Arkansas company, WEHCO Media, publisher of the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
    Arkansas Democrat-Gazette

    The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, commonly abbreviated locally as the Dem-Gaz, Demgaz, or DemoZet, is a daily newspaper published in Little Rock, Arkansas....
    ,     which then bought The Times from the Ochs heirs. Though the two newspapers have merged, the Times Free Press runs both former papers' editorial pages, the Times' liberal page and the News-Free Press' conservative page.

    Radio

    Radio station
    Radio station

    This article is about radio broadcasting, for other uses see Radio .Radio broadcasting is an audio broadcasting service, traditionally broadcast through the air as radio waves from a transmitter to an antenna and a thus to a receiving device....
    s in Chattanooga include:

    ---AM---
    • WUUS 980 AM
      AM broadcasting

      AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation....
       - Oldies / Q 97.3/99.3 (Simulcast with WUUQ-FM 97.3) (Licensed to Rossville, GA)
    • WFLI 1070 AM
      AM broadcasting

      AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation....
       - Southern gospel (Licensed to Lookout Mountain, TN)
    • WGOW 1150 AM
      AM broadcasting

      AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation....
       - News/talk / NewsRadio 1150
    • WNOO
      WNOO

      WNOO is a urban contemporary gospel radio station serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee, USA radio market and licensed to Chattanooga....
       1260 AM
      AM broadcasting

      AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation....
       - Urban gospel and Motown
    • WDOD
      WDOD (AM)

      WDOD is a radio station serving the Chattanooga area. The station is owned by Bahakel Communications out of Charlotte, North Carolina, and currently has an oldies format....
       1310 AM
      AM broadcasting

      AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation....
       - Oldies / Ruby 1310
    • WDEF-AM 1370 AM
      AM broadcasting

      AM broadcasting is the process of radio broadcasting using amplitude modulation....
       - Sports/talk/ 1370 ESPN Radio affiliate.


    ---FM---
    • WUTC 88.1 FM - NPR /Mixed music / Music 88. Operated by UTC. First and only station in Chattanooga to be broadcasting in HD Radio
      HD Radio

      HD Radio technology is a system used by AM broadcasting and FM radio stations to digitally transmit Sound and data in conjunction with their analog signals....
      . (Licensed to Chattanooga, TN)
    • W203AZ 88.5 FM - Religious/CSN international
    • WMBW 88.9 FM - Christian / Moody Radio For The Heart Of The Southeast. Owned and operated by Moody Bible Institute
      Moody Bible Institute

      Moody Bible Institute was founded by evangelist and businessman Dwight Lyman Moody in 1886. The campus, located in the heart of Chicago on the Near North Side, Chicago, has remained at the same location chosen by Moody 120 years ago....
      . (Licensed to Chattanooga, TN)
    • WDYN
      WDYN

      WDYN is a radio station broadcasting a Christian radio format. Licensed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA, the station serves the Chattanooga area....
       89.7 FM - Southern Gospel / WDYN Radio Operated By Tennessee Temple University
      Tennessee Temple University

      Tennessee Temple University is a four-year private Christianity university located in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and is Serving the Christian community by providing a Distinctively Christian Liberal Arts Education in the Baptist Tradition, ACSI and TRACS....
      . (Licensed to Chattanooga, TN)
    • W211BG 90.1 FM - Religious (Licensed to Walden, TN)
    • WSMC 90.5 FM - Classical/NPR/PRI Operated by Southern Adventist University. (Licensed to Collegedale, TN)
    • WAWL
      WAWL

      WJBP is a non-commercial radio station located in Red Bank, Tennessee....
       91.5 FM - College alternative / 91.5 The Wawl Operated by Chattanooga State Technical Community College. (licensed to Red Bank, TN)
    • WDEF-FM
      WDEF-FM

      WDEF-FM is a radio station serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee area, broadcasting on 92.3 FM. The station operates a Adult Contemporary format and is branded as Sunny 92.3 FM....
       92.3 FM - Adult contemporary / Sunny 92.3 (Licensed to Chattanooga, TN)
    • WMPZ
      WMPZ

      WMPZ is a commercial radio station located in Harrison, Tennessee, broadcasting to the Chattanooga, Tennessee area. WMPZ airs an urban adult contemporary music format branded as "Groove"....
       93.5 FM - Urban oldies / Groove 93 (Licensed to Harrison, TN)
    • WJTT
      WJTT

      WJTT is a radio station serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee area. The station operates a Urban Contemporary format and is branded as Power 94 FM....
       94.3 FM - Urban contemporary / Power 94 (Licensed to Red Bank, TN)
    • WAAK 94.7 FM - Variety (Low power station licensed to Boynton/Ringgold, GA)
    • WHJK
      WHJK

      WHJK is a radio station broadcasting the Jack FM Adult Hits format. Licensed to Cleveland, Tennessee, USA, the station serves the Chattanooga area....
       95.3 FM - Variety / Jack FM (Licensed to Cleveland, TN)
    • WDOD
      WDOD-FM

      WDOD-FM is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary hit radio format. Licensed to Chattanooga, Tennessee, USA,. The station is currently owned by WDOD of Chattanooga, Inc....
       96.5 FM - 96.5 The Mountain--Chattanooga's #1 Hit Music Station (Licensed to Chattanooga, TN)
    • WUUQ 97.3, & 99.3 FM - Classic Hits / Q 97.3/99.3 (Licensed to South Pittsburg, TN)
    • WLND
      WLND

      WLND is a radio station serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee area. The station operates a Country music format and is branded as "98.1 The Legend"....
       98.1 FM - Classic country / The Legend (Licensed to Signal Mountain, TN)
    • WOOP 99.9 FM, Classic country, old-time gospel, bluegrass and mountain music. Operated by the Traditional Music Resource Center, (Licensed to Cleveland, TN)
    • WUSY
      WUSY

      WUSY "U.S. 101" is a commercial radio station licensed to Cleveland, Tennessee, broadcasting to the Chattanooga, Tennessee area. The station uses a Country music format....
       100.7 FM, Contemporary country / US101 Multiple winner of the CMA
      Country Music Association

      The Country Music Association was founded in 1958 in Nashville, Tennessee, Tennessee. It originally consisted of only 233 members and was the first trade organization formed to promote a music genre....
       station of the year (Licensed to Cleveland, TN)
    • WOCE 101.9 FM, Spanish (Licensed to Ringgold, GA)
    • WGOW
      WGOW-FM

      WGOW-FM is a radio station known as "Talk Radio 102.3" in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The station's talk radio format features a unique mix of local and syndicated hosts....
       102.3 FM, News/talk (Licensed to Soddy-Daisy, TN)
    • WBDX
      WBDX

      WBDX is a radio station broadcasting a Contemporary Christian format. Licensed to Trenton, Georgia, USA, the station serves the Chattanooga, Tennessee area....
       102.7 FM, Contemporary Christian (Licensed to Trenton, GA)
    • WLLJ 103.1 FM, Contemporary Christian (Simulcast with WBDX 102.7) (Licensed to Etowah, TN)
    • WURV 103.7 FM, (Licensed to Walden, TN)
    • WALV-FM
      WALV-FM

      WALV-FM is known as "Alive 105" and is a radio station serving Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee and Cleveland, Tennessee, Tennessee. The station's broadcast tower is located on Lone Mountain, in nearby Dayton, Tennessee....
       104.9 FM, Adult CHR (Licensed to Dayton, TN)
    • WRXR 105.5 FM, Active rock (Licensed to Rossville, GA)
    • WSKZ
      WSKZ

      WSKZ is a radio station in Chattanooga, Tennessee. The station operates under a classic rock format and is branded as KZ-106. The station is one of four stations operating in the Chattanooga broadcast area by Citadel Broadcasting....
       106.5 FM, Classic rock
    • WOGT
      WOGT

      WOGT is a radio station serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee, area with a country music format. It is under ownership of Citadel Broadcasting.Until it became "107.9 The Duke" on July 29, 2005, the station had an oldies format known as "GT 108"....
       107.9 FM, Contemporary country. (Licensed to East Ridge, TN)


    Television

    Chattanooga television station
    Television station

    A television station is a type of broadcast station that Broadcastings both sound and video to television receiver s in a particular area. Traditionally, TV stations made their broadcasts by sending specially-encoded radio signals over the air, called terrestrial television....
    s, including:
    • WRCB
      WRCB-TV

      WRCB-TV Channel 3 is an NBC affiliate based in Chattanooga, Tennessee, serving southeastern Tennessee, northwestern Georgia , northeastern Alabama, and Southwestern North Carolina....
       channel 3, NBC affiliate - (DT 13 / cable 4)
    • WOOT-LP
      WOOT-LP

      WOOT-LP channel 6 was a low-powered television station in Chattanooga, Tennessee.WOOT was affiliated with UPN until it went silent in 2000. Afterwards, the UPN affiliation was picked up part-time by WYHB-CA , then by CBS affiliate WDEF-TV in 2004 as a secondary affiliation....
       channel 6, independent (formerly UPN) (silent)
    • WTVC channel 9, ABC affiliate - (DT35 / cable 10)
    • WDEF
      WDEF-TV

      WDEF?TV channel 12 is the CBS affiliate for Chattanooga and the Tennessee Valley. The station, whose call letters came from its former WDEF-AM and WDEF-FM sister stations, is owned by Morris Multimedia....
       channel 12, CBS affiliate - (DT47 / cable 13)
    • WNGH channel 18, GPB
      Georgia Public Broadcasting

      Georgia Public Broadcasting is the public broadcasting broadcast network in the U.S. state of Georgia .GPB operates all of the Public Broadcasting Service and National Public Radio stations in Georgia, except WPBA -TV, WABE -FM and WCLK -FM in Atlanta, Georgia, WFSL-FM in Thomasville, Georgia , and WTJB-FM in Columbus, Georgia ....
       affiliate - (DT 33 / cable 12)
    • WELF
      WELF-TV

      WELF-TV is a religious broadcasting television station licensed to Dalton, Georgia and serving the Chattanooga, Tennessee area, with studios and transmitter in Lookout Mountain, Georgia , broadcasting on channel 23....
       channel 23, TBN
      Trinity Broadcasting Network

      The Trinity Broadcasting Network is the United States' largest Religious broadcasting#Television Headquartered in Costa Mesa, California, it also has studios in Irving, Texas; Hendersonville, Tennessee; Atlanta, Georgia; Miami, Florida; Tulsa, Oklahoma and Orlando, Florida....
       affiliate - (DT 16 / cable 9)
    • W26BE channel 26, 3ABN affiliate - (Not on cable in Chattanooga)
    • WYHB-CA
      WYHB-CA

      WYHB-CA is a low-power television station in Chattanooga, Tennessee, broadcasting locally on channel 39 as an affiliate of America One. Founded July 29, 1988, the station is owned by Ying Hua Benns....
       channel 39, America One
      America One

      America One is an over-the-air television network in the United States. The network serves over 170 LPTV, Class A, Full Power, Cable and Satellite affiliate stations....
       affiliate - (Not on Cable in Chattanooga)
    • WTCI channel 45, PBS
      Public Broadcasting Service

      The Public Broadcasting Service is an United States non-profit public broadcasting television service with 354 member TV stations in the United States....
       member station (DT29 / cable 5)
    • WFLI-TV
      WFLI-TV

      WFLI-TV is The CW Television Network affiliate for Chattanooga, Tennessee, the Chattanooga metropolitan area, and the Tennessee Valley, including southeast Tennessee, and north Georgia....
       channel 53, The CW Television Network
      The CW Television Network

      The CW Television Network is a television network in the United States launched at the beginning of the 2006-07 United States network television schedule....
       affiliate (Formerly UPN and The WB
      The WB Television Network

      The WB Television Network or simply The WB, was a television network in the United States that was launched on January 11, 1995 as a joint venture of Tribune Broadcasting and Warner Bros....
      ) (DT 42 / cable 6)
    • WDSI
      WDSI-TV

      WDSI-TV is the Fox Network-affiliated television station for Chattanooga, Tennessee. The station broadcasts a high-definition television digital signal on UHF channel 40, identified using PSIP as 61, its previous analog channel....
       channel 61, FOX
      Fox Broadcasting Company

      The Fox Broadcasting Company, commonly referred to as Fox and stylized as FOX, is an United States television network owned by Fox Entertainment Group, part of Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation....
       affiliate - (DT 40 / cable 11)


    See also List of television stations in Tennessee
    List of television stations in Tennessee

    This is a list of broadcast television stations serving cities in the U.S. state of Tennessee....
    , List of television stations in Georgia
    List of television stations in Georgia

    This is a list of broadcast television stations serving cities in the United States state of Georgia ....


    Notable residents

    The following people were born, live, or have lived in Chattanooga:

    • Grant Adcox
      Grant Adcox

      Grant Adcox , was a stock car racing driver who died in a single car incident in the 1989 Atlanta Journal 500 in the NASCAR Winston Cup series....
      , race car driver
    • John Ankerberg
      John Ankerberg

      John Ankerberg is the host of the nationally-syndicated Christian television talk show the, "John Ankerberg Show." It's broadcast from Chattanooga, Tennessee, in all 50 states and in 200 countries....
      , author, religious broadcaster
    • Kay Arthur
      Kay Arthur

      Kay Arthur is an international Bible teacher, four-time ECPA Christian Book Award award-winning author, and founder of Precept Ministries International.Hundreds of thousands of people are reached internationally through the "Precept upon Precept" inductive Bible studies series....
      , author, teacher and television host
    • Lovie Austin
      Lovie Austin

      Lovie Austin was an United States popular Chicago bandleader, session musician, composer, and arranger during the 1920s Classic female blues era....
      , jazz blues pianist, bandleader, and composer
    • Howard Baker
      Howard Baker

      Howard Henry Baker, Jr. is a former Party leaders of the United States Senate, Republican Party United States Senate from Tennessee, White House Chief of Staff, and a former United States Ambassador to Japan....
      , former U.S. Senator and White House Chief of Staff
    • Hugh Beaumont, actor
      Actor

      An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
    • Charles K. Bell
      Charles K. Bell

      Charles Keith Bell was an United States politician who represented Texas in the United States House of Representatives from 1893-1897. He was the nephew of Reese Bowen Brabson....
      , politician
      Politician

      A politician is an individual who is involved in influencing public decision making through the influence of politics or a person who influences the way a society is governed....
    • Jimmy Blanton
      Jimmy Blanton

      Jimmy Blanton was an influential United States jazz double bassist. Blanton originated melodically conceived pizzicato and bowed bass solos.Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Blanton originally learned to play the violin, but took up the bass while at Tennessee State University, performing with the Tennessee State Collegians from 1936 to 1937...
      , bass player
      Bass player

      Bass Player may refer to:* A bassist, someone who plays the bass guitar or double bass* Bass Player , a U.S. magazine publication...
    • Rachel Boston
      Rachel Boston

      Rachel Elizabeth Boston is an American actress....
      , Miss Tennessee Teen USA
      Miss Tennessee Teen USA

      The Miss Tennessee Teen USA competition is the pageant that selects the representative for the state Tennessee in the Miss Teen USA pageant.Tennessee is among the most successful states at Miss Teen USA: they are ranked second behind Miss Texas Teen USA in terms of number and value of placements ....
       1999, actress
    • Adarius Bowman
      Adarius Bowman

      }}Adarius Bowman is an American football wide receiver for the Saskatchewan Roughriders of the Canadian Football League. He was signed by the Roughriders as an undrafted free agent in 2008....
      , Current CFL
      Canadian Football League

      The Canadian Football League is a professional sports league located entirely in Canada.Its eight teams, which are located in eight cities, are divided into two division of four teams each ....
       Player
    • Tony Brown
      Tony Brown (American football)

      Robert Anthony Brown, Jr. is an American football defensive tackle for the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. He was signed by the Carolina Panthers as an undrafted free agent in 2003....
      , Current NFL player, Tennessee Titans
      Tennessee Titans

      The Tennessee Titans are a professional American football team based in Nashville, Tennessee. They are members of the AFC South of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    • Daniel Bullocks
      Daniel Bullocks

      Daniel Bullocks is an American football Safety with the Detroit Lions of the National Football League. Bullocks was selected in the second round of the 2006 NFL Draft from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, for whom he starting lineup 33 National Collegiate Athletic Association games across four regular season, notably serving as captain...
      , Current NFL player, Detroit Lions
      Detroit Lions

      The Detroit Lions are an American football team based in Detroit, Michigan. They are members of the North Division of the National Football Conference in the National Football League , and play their home games at Ford Field in downtown Detroit....
    • Josh Bullocks
      Josh Bullocks

      Josh Bullocks is an American football Safety with the New Orleans Saints of the National Football League. Bullocks was selected in the second round of the 2005 NFL Draft from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln, for whom he starting lineup 28 National Collegiate Athletic Association games across three regular season, notably totalling ten i...
      , Current NFL player, New Orleans Saints
      New Orleans Saints

      The New Orleans Saints are a professional American football team based in New Orleans, Louisiana. The Saints play in the NFC South of the National Football Conference in the National Football League ....
    • Archie Campbell
      Archie Campbell

      ----Archie Campbell, was a writer and star of Hee Haw, a popular long-running Country music-flavored television variety show. He was also a recording musician with several hits on the RCA label in the 1960s....
      , writer and star of Hee Haw
      Hee Haw

      Hee Haw was a television variety show, initially co-hosted by musicians Buck Owens and Roy Clark and featuring country music and humor with fictional, rural "Kornfield Kounty" as a backdrop....
      , recording artist
    • Dixie Carter
      Dixie Carter

      Dixie Virginia Carter is an United States Emmy Award-nominated actress....
      , actress
    • George S. Clinton
      George S. Clinton

      George S. Clinton is a professional songwriter, arranger, composer, and session musician, not to be confused with funk musician George Clinton ....
      , film score
      Film score

      A film score is a broad term referring to the music in a film, which is generally categorically separated from songs used within a film. The term Soundtrack is often confused with film score, though a soundtrack may also include songs featured in the film as well as previously released music by other artists, while the score does...
       composer for the Austin Powers series
    • Will Marion Cook
      Will Marion Cook

      Will Marion Cook was a composer and violinist from the United States. Cook was a student of Anton?n Dvor?k and performed for George V of the United Kingdom among others....
      , African-American composer
    • Charles Coolidge, World War II Medal of Honor
      Medal of Honor

      The Medal of Honor is the highest Awards and decorations of the United States military awarded by the United States government. It is bestowed on a member of the United States armed forces who distinguishes himself "conspicuously by gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while engaged in an action...
       recipient
    • Bob Corker
      Bob Corker

      Robert Phillips "Bob" Corker, Jr., is the junior United States Senate from Tennessee. Before his election to the Senate in 2006, he served as mayor of Chattanooga, Tennessee from 2001 to 2005....
      , former Chattanooga mayor and freshman U.S. Senator
    • Bill Dedman
      Bill Dedman

      Bill Dedman, an United States journalist, is an investigative reporter for msnbc.com and a recipient of the Pulitzer Prize for Investigative Reporting....
      , Pulitzer Prize
      Pulitzer Prize

      The Pulitzer Prize is an United States award regarded as the highest national honor in newspaper journalism, literary achievements and musical composition....
      -winning journalist
      Journalist

      A journalist is a person who practices journalism, the gathering and dissemination of information about current events, trends, issues, and people while striving for viewpoints that aren't biased....
    • Juliette Derricotte
      Juliette Derricotte

      Juliette Derricotte was an African-American educator and political activist whose death after receiving racist treatment after a fatal car accident sparked outrage in the African-American community....
      , African-American educator and political activist.
    • Cal Ermer
      Cal Ermer

      Calvin Coolidge Ermer is a scout for the Minnesota Twins and a former coach and manager in United States Major League Baseball.Most of Ermer's 60-plus-year career in baseball has been spent as an employee of the Twins and its predecessor franchise , the Washington Senators....
      , former MLB manager for the Minnesota Twins
      Minnesota Twins

      The Minnesota Twins are a professional baseball based in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. The Twins are a member of the American League Central of Major League Baseball's American League....
    • Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin
      Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin

      Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin is an United States writer, activist, and Black anarchist. He is a former member of the Black Panther Party. As of December 2006, he lives in Nashville, Tennessee....
      , African American writer, activist, and Black anarchist.
    • James B. Frazier
      James B. Frazier

      James Beriah Frazier was List of Governors of Tennessee from 1903 to 1905 and subsequently a United States Senator from Tennessee from 1905 to 1911....
      , Governor of Tennessee, 1903-1905
    • Betty Lou Gerson
      Betty Lou Gerson

      Elizabeth Louise Gerson was an United States actress, predominantly in radio programming, but also in film and television, and as a voice actress....
      , actress
    • Gibby Gilbert
      Gibby Gilbert

      C.L. "Gibby" Gilbert II is an United States professional golfer who has won tournaments on both the PGA Tour and Champions Tour.Gilbert was born and raised in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and still makes his home there with his wife Judy....
      , professional golfer
      Professional golfer

      In golf the distinction between amateurs and professionals is rigorously maintained. An amateur who plays for money even once usually loses his or her amateur status permanently and is banned from all amateur tournaments....
    • George Gobel
      George Gobel

      George Leslie Gobel was an American comedian, best known as the star of his own weekly NBC television show, The George Gobel Show, from 1954 to 1960....
      , comedian
    • Arthur Golden
      Arthur Golden

      Arthur Golden is the writer of the bestselling novel Memoirs of a Geisha.A member of the Ochs-Sulzberger family , Golden was educated at the Baylor School in Chattanooga, Tennessee....
      , author
      Author

      An author is defined both as "the person who originates or gives existence to anything" and that authorship determines responsibility for what is created....
       of Memoirs of a Geisha
      Memoirs of a Geisha

      Memoirs of a Geisha is a novel by Arthur Golden, published in 1997. The novel, told in first-person view, tells the fictional story of a geisha working in Kyoto, Japan, before and after World War II....
    • Sam Gooden
      Sam Gooden

      Sam Gooden is an African-American soul music singer. He is best known for being a member of the successful group The Impressions from its beginnings as "The Roosters" in the 1950s....
      , African-American soul singer with The Impressions
      The Impressions (American band)

      The Impressions are an United States music group from Chicago, originally formed in 1958. Their repertoire includes doo-wop, gospel music, soul music, and R&B....
      .
    • Terry Gordy
      Terry Gordy

      Terry Ray 'Bam Bam' Gordy, Sr. was a professional wrestler who was most famous in the United States for being a member of the Fabulous Freebirds....
      , professional wrestler
    • Ray Gordy
      Ray Gordy

      Terry Ray Gordy, Jr. is an United States Professional wrestling currently signed with World Wrestling Entertainment appearing on its WWE Friday Night SmackDown WWE Brand Extension under the ring name Jesse....
      , professional wrestler for the WWE
    • Irvine W. Grote
      Irvine W. Grote

      Dr. Irvine Walter Grote was an American chemist and scholar. Born in the Cameron Hill section of Chattanooga, Tennessee, he entered the University of Chattanooga in 1918....
      , chemist
      Chemist

      A chemist is a scientist trained in the science of chemistry. Chemists study the composition of matter and its properties such as density, acidity, size and shape....
      , inventor of Rolaids
      Rolaids

      Rolaids is a brand of antacid produced by McNeil Laboratories, a subsidiary of Johnson & Johnson Inc. The brand was acquired from Pfizer Consumer Healthcare as part of a merger in 2006....
    • Ben Haden
      Ben Haden

      Ben Haden is an ordained minister in the Presbyterian Church in America. He became internationally known through the medium of one of the most successful of the twentieth century religious broadcasts, Changed Lives....
      , minister
      Minister

      Minister can mean several things:* Minister , a Christian who ministers in some way.* Minister , the rank of diplomat directly below ambassador....
      , author, religious broadcaster
    • Lee H. Hamilton
      Lee H. Hamilton

      Lee Herbert Hamilton , the vice chairman of the 9/11 Commission, currently serves on the President of the United States's Homeland Security Advisory Council, having previously served in the United States House of Representatives for thirty-four years....
       (D-IN), United States House of Representatives
      United States House of Representatives

      The United States House of Representatives, commonly referred to as "the House", is one of the bicameralism of the United States Congress; the other is the United States Senate....
      , 1965-1999
    • Dennis Haskins
      Dennis Haskins

      Dennis Haskins is an United States actor known for his role as School principal Saved by the Bell#Richard Belding in the teen situation comedy Saved by the Bell, which ran from 1989 to 1993 on NBC....
      , actor
    • Roland Hayes
      Roland Hayes

      Roland Hayes , a lyric tenor, is considered the first African American male concert artist to receive wide international acclaim as well as at home....
      , tenor
      Tenor

      The tenor is a type of male voice type and is the highest male voice within the modal register. The typical tenor voice lies between the C one octave below middle C to the A above in choral music, and up to high C in solo work....
    • Calvin C. Hernton
      Calvin C. Hernton

      Calvin Coolidge Hernton is an United States sociologist, poet and author.He was born in Chattanooga Tennessee, USA on 28 April 1932. He studied at Tallageda University and Fisk University....
      , African American sociologist, poet and author.
    • Rick Honeycutt
      Rick Honeycutt

      Frederick Wayne "Rick" Honeycutt is the current pitching coach for the Los Angeles Dodgers. Honeycutt was a left-handed pitcher for 21 years from 1977 to 1997....
      , L.A. Dodgers
      Los Angeles Dodgers

      The Los Angeles Dodgers are a Major League Baseball team based in Los Angeles, USA. The team is in the Western Division of the National League. Established in 1883, the team originated in Brooklyn, New York, where it was known by a number of names before becoming the Brooklyn Dodgers circa 1911....
       pitching coach and former MLB
      Major League Baseball

      Major League Baseball is the highest level of play in American professional baseball. Specifically, Major League Baseball refers to the organization that operates the National League and the American League, by means of a joint organizational structure that has developed gradually between them since 1903 ....
       player
    • Henry H. Horton, Governor of Tennessee, 1927-1933
    • Michael Houser
      Michael Houser

      Michael Houser was the lead guitarist of the band Widespread Panic.Houser was born in Boone, North Carolina, North Carolina, graduated from Hixson High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee, and became a founding member of Widespread Panic in 1982 while attending the University of Georgia with John Bell....
      , lead guitarist, Widespread Panic
      Widespread Panic

      Widespread Panic is an United States band from Athens, Georgia. The current lineup includes guitarist/singer John Bell , bassist Dave Schools, drummer Todd Nance, percussionist Domingo "Sunny" Ortiz, keyboardist John Hermann, and guitarist Jimmy Herring....
    • George Hunter
      George Hunter (Coca-Cola bottler)

      George Thomas Hunter was a businessperson and philanthropy in Chattanooga, Tennessee who inherited and ran the Coca-Cola Bottling Company empire from his uncle Benjamin Thomas ....
      , Coca-Cola Bottling magnate
      Business magnate

      A business magnate, sometimes referred to as a mogul, tycoon, baron, or industrialist, is a partially informal term used to refer to a person who has reached a prominent place in a particular industry and whose wealth has been derived primarily therefrom....
      , founder of the Benwood Foundation
      Benwood Foundation

      The Benwood Foundation is a charitable foundation created in 1944 by George Hunter in honor of his uncle, Benjamin Thomas who pioneered the Coca-Cola bottle industry and founded the Coca-Cola Bottling Company....
       and the Hunter Museum of American Art
      Hunter Museum of American Art

      The Hunter Museum of American Art is an art museum in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Tennessee. The museum's collections include works representing the Hudson River School, 19th century Genre works, American Impressionism, the Ashcan School, early modernism, Regionalism , and post World War II modern and contemporary art....
    • Samuel L. Jackson
      Samuel L. Jackson

      Samuel Leroy Jackson is an United States film and television actor. Jackson came to fame in the early 1990s, after a series of well-reviewed performances, and has since become a major film star and cultural icon, having appeared in a large number of high-grossing films....
      , actor
    • Leslie Jordan
      Leslie Jordan

      Leslie Allen Jordan is an United States Emmy Awards-winning acting.Hailing from Chattanooga, Tennessee and at a height of just 4 ft 11 in , Jordan has become an instantly recognizable face in film and television....
      , actor
  • Estes Kefauver
    Estes Kefauver

    Carey Estes Kefauver was an United States politician from Tennessee who opposed the concentration of economic and political power under the control of a wealthy, exclusive elite and favored racial equality....
    , U.S. Senator
  • Venus Lacy
    Venus Lacy

    Venus Lacy , born on February 9, 1967 in Chattanooga, Tennessee, is a former star basketball player, at the high school, college, Olympic and professional levels....
    , gold medalist in basketball, 1996 Summer Olympics
    Basketball at the 1996 Summer Olympics

    Final results for the Basketball competition at the 1996 Summer Olympics.For the second straight year, the United States' team comprised fully of National Basketball Association players won the gold medal....
  • Yusef Lateef
    Yusef Lateef

    Dr. Yusef Lateef is an United States jazz multi-instrumentalist, composer and Music education and a renowned spokesman for the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community after his conversion to Islam in 1950....
    , saxophonist and music educator
    Music education

    Music education is a field of study associated with the teaching and learning of music. More than merely teaching notes and rhythms, music education seeks to develop the whole person....
  • Cartter Lupton
    Cartter Lupton

    T. Cartter Lupton was an United States businessman and Coca-Cola Bottling Company magnate who lived in Chattanooga, Tennessee and founded the Lyndhurst Foundation ....
    , Coca-Cola Bottling magnate and founder of the Lyndhurst Foundation
    Lyndhurst Foundation

    The Lyndhurst Foundation is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based grant -making foundation organized in 1938 as The Memorial Welfare Foundation by Coca-Cola Bottling Company magnate Cartter Lupton....
  • Peyton Manning
    Peyton Manning

    Peyton Williams Manning is an American football quarterback for the Indianapolis Colts of the National Football League. Manning is one of only two three-time NFL MVPs....
    , NFL football player
  • Ralphie May, stand-up comedian
  • Lurlene McDaniel
    Lurlene McDaniel

    Lurlene McDaniel is an author who has written over 60 Young adult literature. She is well known for writing about characters struggling with mortality and chronic illness....
    , popular YA author
    Young adult literature

    Young-adult fiction is fiction written for, published for, or marketed to adolescents, roughly between the ages of 12 and 18....
  • William Gibbs McAdoo
    William Gibbs McAdoo

    William Gibbs McAdoo, Jr. was an United States lawyer and political leader who served as a United States Senate, United States Secretary of the Treasury and director of the United States Railroad Administration ....
    , Secretary of the Treasury under Woodrow Wilson
    Woodrow Wilson

    Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the List of Presidents of the United States President of the United States. A devout Presbyterianism and leading intellectual of the Progressive Era, he served as President of Princeton University of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913....
  • Ralph McGill
    Ralph McGill

    For the football player of the same name see Ralph McGill .Ralph Emerson McGill , American journalist, was best known as the racial segregation editing and publisher of the Atlanta Constitution newspaper....
    , editor of Atlanta Constitution
  • Ellis K. Meacham
    Ellis K. Meacham

    Ellis Kirby Meacham was an American attorney and judge who wrote three Napoleonic era nautical adventures....
    , author of a nautical adventure trilogy
  • Jon Meacham
    Jon Meacham

    Jon Meacham is the Editing of Newsweek, a bestselling author and a Pundit on politics, history, and faith in United States....
    , editor of Newsweek magazine
  • Olan Mills
    Olan Mills

    Olan Mills, Inc. is a privately owned company founded in 1932 by Olan Mills Sr. and Mary Mills headquartered in Chattanooga, Tennessee that provides portrait photography and church directories through its two main corporate divisions: Olan Mills Portrait Studios and Olan Mills Church Division....
    , Sr., photographer, portrait studio founder
  • Jackie Mitchell (baseball player), female pitcher who struck out Babe Ruth
    Babe Ruth

    George Herman Ruth, Jr. , also popularly known as "Babe", "The Bambino", and "The Sultan of Swat", was an United States Major League Baseball baseball player from –....
     while playing for the Lookouts
  • Grace Moore
    Grace Moore

    Grace Moore was an United States operatic soprano and Academy Award-nominated actress in musical theatre and film, nicknamed the "Tennessee Nightingale." Her films helped to popularize opera by bringing it to a larger audience....
    , soprano
    Soprano

    A soprano is a voice type with a vocal range from approximately to "high A" in choral music, or to "soprano C" or higher in operatic music. In four part chorale style harmony the soprano takes the highest part which usually encompasses the melody....
    , actress
  • Scrappy Moore (football), football coach
  • Jim Nabors
    Jim Nabors

    James Thurston "Jim" Nabors is an United States actor and singer. Born and raised in Sylacauga, Alabama, Nabors moved to Southern California due to his asthma....
    , actor, singer
  • Nevertheless (band)
    Nevertheless (band)

    Nevertheless, often abbreviated as NTL, is a Christian power-pop band from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Their song "Live Like We're Alive" reached the top 5 of the R&R Christian Rock Chart., Their song "The Real," was played on Contemporary Christian Music radio stations, peaking in the Top 10 on radio stations thoroughout the United States....
    , Christian alternative band
  • Adolph S. Ochs, publisher of the Chattanooga Times and New York Times
  • Terrell Owens
    Terrell Owens

    Terrell Eldorado Owens is an American football wide receiver for the Buffalo Bills of the National Football League. He was drafted by the San Francisco 49ers in the third round of the 1996 NFL Draft....
    , current NFL player, Buffalo Bills
    Buffalo Bills

    The Buffalo Bills are a professional American football team based in the metropolitan area of Buffalo, New York. They sold out every game in 2008....
  • Lori Petty
    Lori Petty

    Lori Lee Petty is an United States movie actor....
    , actress
  • Ishmael Reed
    Ishmael Reed

    Ishmael Scott Reed is an American poet, essayist, and novelist. Reed is a well known African-American writer of his generation, and along with Amiri Baraka, is controversial....
    , novelist
  • Pat Robertson
    Pat Robertson

    Marion Gordon "Pat" Robertson is a televangelist from the United States. He is the founder of numerous organizations and corporations, including the American Center for Law and Justice , the Christian Broadcasting Network , the Christian Coalition of America, Flying Hospital, International Family Entertainment, Operation Blessing Internation...
    , founder of the 700 club
  • Usher Raymond, rhythm and blues
    Rhythm and blues

    Rhythm and blues is the name given to a wide-ranging genre of popular music first created by African Americans in the late 1940s and early 1950s....
     singer
  • Terdell Sands
    Terdell Sands

    Terdell Sands is an American football defensive tackle for the Oakland Raiders of the National Football League. He was originally drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs in the seventh round of the 2001 NFL Draft....
    , Howard graduate, currently in NFL as DT for the Oakland Raiders
    Oakland Raiders

    The Oakland Raiders are a professional American football team based in the city of Oakland, California. They currently play in the AFC West of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • M.B. “Bud” Seretean, American businessman, philanthropist
  • Tracy Seretean
    Tracy Seretean

    Tracy Seretean is an United States filmmaker whose film Big Mama won the Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject.Grew up in Chattanooga, Tennessee....
    , American filmmaker
  • T.G. Sheppard, country music singer
  • Danny Shirley, lead singer of Confederate Railroad
    Confederate Railroad

    Confederate Railroad is an American country music band founded in 1987 in Marietta, Georgia by Danny Shirley , Michael Lamb , Mark Dufresne , Chris McDaniel , Gates Nichols , and Wayne Secrest ....
  • Margaret Sloan-Hunter
    Margaret Sloan-Hunter

    Margaret Sloan-Hunter was a Black feminist, lesbian, and civil rights advocate, and one of the founding editors of Ms. Magazine.Sloan-Hunter was born in Chattanooga, TN., and grew up in Chicago, Il....
    , Black feminist, lesbian, civil rights advocate, and one of the founding editors of Ms. Magazine.
  • Bessie Smith
    Bessie Smith

    Bessie Smith was an United States blues singer.The most popular female blues singer of the 1920s and 1930s, Smith is often regarded as one of the greatest singers of her era, and along with Louis Armstrong, a major influence on subsequent jazz vocalists....
    , blues
    Blues

    Blues is a music genre based on the use of the blues chord progressions and the blue notes. Though several blues musical form s exist, the 12-bar blues chord progressions are the most frequently encountered....
     singer
  • Kurt Smith
    Kurt Smith

    Kurt Smith is an American football placekicker who is currently a free agent. He was drafted in the sixth round of the 2006 NFL Draft, pick 188....
    , current NFL player, San Diego Chargers
    San Diego Chargers

    The San Diego Chargers are a professional American football team based in San Diego, California. They are currently members of the Western Division of the American Football Conference in the National Football League ....
  • Lewis Smith
    Lewis Smith

    Lewis Smith , is an American actor, best known for the role of Charles Main on the first and second part of North and South miniseries, and as Perfect Tommy in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension. Lewis is also well known for his starring role as Bobby Fantana in 1985's The Heavenly Kid....
    , actor
  • Valaida Snow
    Valaida Snow

    Valaida Snow was an African American jazz musician and entertainer. Raised on the road in a show-business family with her sister Lavaida Snow, she learned to play cello, Double bass, banjo, violin, mandolin, harp, accordion, clarinet, trumpet, and saxophone at professional levels by the time she was 15....
    , African-American jazz trumper player
  • Mary Q. Steele
    Mary Q. Steele

    Mary Quintard Govan Steele was a noted American author and naturalist. She wrote over 20 books --- some adult-style, but mostly children's books....
    , Newbery Honor-winning children's author
  • William O. Steele
    William O. Steele

    William O. Steele was an award-winning American author. He was married to another author, Mary Q. Steele.Steele was born in Franklin, Tennessee, Tennessee, the son of Core and Sue, and spent a large amount of his youth exploring the woods around his home....
    , Newbery Honor-winning children's author
  • Grady Sutton
    Grady Sutton

    Grady Harwell Sutton was an United States film and television actor from the 1920s to the 1970s....
    , actor
  • Roscoe Tanner
    Roscoe Tanner

    Roscoe Tanner is a former professional American male tennis player, who reached a career high world singles ranking of No. 4 on July 30, 1979. Tanner was famous for his big left-handed serve, which hit a peak speed of an incredible 153mph during his 1978 Indian Wells Masters victory over Ra?l Ram?rez....
    , tennis player
  • Johnny Taylor
    Johnny Taylor (basketball)

    Johnny Antonio Taylor is an United States professional basketball player, formerly in the National Basketball Association. A 6'9" small forward from the University of Tennessee, Chattanooga, Taylor was selected 17th overall in the 1997 NBA Draft by the Orlando Magic....
    , professional basketball player
  • Benjamin Thomas
    Benjamin Thomas (Coca-Cola bottler)

    Benjamin Franklin Thomas was a Chattanooga, Tennessee businessman and industrialist who pioneered the development of the Coca-Cola bottle industry and founded the Coca-Cola Bottling Company....
    , co-founder of the first Coca-Cola Bottling Company
  • Ted Turner
    Ted Turner

    Robert Edward "Ted" Turner III is an United States media proprietor. As a businessman, he is known as founder of the cable television network CNN, the first dedicated 24-hour cable news channel....
    , founder of CNN
  • Roger Alan Wade
    Roger Alan Wade

    Roger Alan Wade is an American singer-songwriter.According to his website, Wade penned songs for country legends such as Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, George Jones and Hank Williams Jr....
    ,singer/songwriter
  • Leon "Daddy Wags" Wagner
    Leon Wagner

    Leon Lamar Wagner was an United States left fielder in Major League Baseball who played with the San Francisco Giants , St. Louis Cardinals , Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim , Cleveland Indians and Chicago White Sox ....
    , MLB player for the Los Angeles Angels
    Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim

    The Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim are a professional baseball based in Anaheim, California. The Angels are a member of the American League West of Major League Baseball's American League....
     and the Cleveland Indians
    Cleveland Indians

    The Cleveland Indians are a professional baseball based in Cleveland, Ohio, Ohio. They are in the American League Central of Major League Baseball's American League....
    , among others
  • Reggie White
    Reggie White

    Reginald Howard "Reggie" White was a professional American football player who played defensive end for 17 seasons in the National Football League for the Philadelphia Eagles, Green Bay Packers and Carolina Panthers becoming one of the most decorated players in NFL history....
    , football
    American football

    American football, known in the United States and Canada simply as football, is a competitive team sport known for mixing strategy with physical play....
     player
  • Bart Whiteman
    Bart Whiteman

    Bart Whiteman was a Washington, D.C. theatre actor, director, and producer. He founded the Source Theatre in 1977 and served as its artistic director until 1986....
    , writer and critic


    • Sister cities

    Chattanooga has five sister cities
    Town twinning

    Town twinning, also known as sister cities, is a concept whereby towns or city in geographically and politically distinct areas are paired, with the goal of fostering human contact and cultural links between their inhabitants....
    , as designated by :
    • Giv'atayim
      Giv'atayim

      File:Location_givatayim.pngGiv'atayim is a city in Israel east of Tel Aviv. It is part of the metropolitan area known as Gush Dan. Givatayim was established in 1922 by pioneers of the Second Aliyah....
      , Israel
      Israel

      Israel officially the State of Israel , is a country in the Middle East located on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean Sea. It borders Lebanon in the north, Syria in the northeast, Jordan in the east, and Egypt on the southwest, and contains geographically diverse features within its relatively small area....
    • Hamm
      Hamm

      Hamm is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia , Germany. It is located on the Lippe River, in the northeastern part of the Ruhr area. As of December 2003 its population was 180,849....
      , Germany
      Germany

      Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a country in Central Europe. It is bordered to the north by the North Sea, Denmark, and the Baltic Sea; to the east by Poland and the Czech Republic; to the south by Austria and Switzerland; and to the west by France, Luxembourg, Belgium, and the Netherlands....
    • Nizhny Tagil
      Nizhny Tagil

      Nizhny Tagil is a types of inhabited localities in Russia in Sverdlovsk Oblast, Russia. Population: 390,498 ; 439,521 . The city is situated some east of the virtual border between Europe and Asia....
      , Russia
      Russia

      Russia , or the Russian Federation , is a list of countries spanning more than one continent country extending over much of northern Eurasia....
    • Wuxi
      Wuxi

      Wuxi is an old city in Jiangsu, People's Republic of China. Split into halves by Lake Tai, Wuxi borders Changzhou to the west and Suzhou to the east....
      , China
      China

      China is a Culture of China, an ancient civilization, and, depending on perspective, a national or multinational entity extending over a large area in East Asia....
    • Gangneung
      Gangneung

      Gangneung is a Administrative divisions of South Korea in Gangwon-do , on the east coast of South Korea. It has a population of 229,869 . Gangneung is the economic centre of the Yeongdong region of eastern Gangwon Province....
      , South Korea
      South Korea

      South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea , ), often referred to as Korea and the "names of Korea#Revival of the names", is a Semi-presidential system republic in East Asia, located in the southern half of the Korean Peninsula....


    Chattanooga also has two twinning cities: Ascoli Piceno
    Ascoli Piceno

    Ascoli Piceno is a town in the Marche region, Italy, capital of the province of the same name. Its population is 51,630 inhabitants. ...
    , Italy
    Italy

    Italy , officially the Italian Republic , is a country located on the Italian Peninsula in Southern Europe and on the two largest islands in the Mediterranean Sea, Sicily and Sardinia....
     and Swindon
    Swindon

    Swindon is a City sized town and unitary borough authority in the ceremonial county of Wiltshire in South West England England. It is midway between Bristol, west and Reading, Berkshire, east....
    , United Kingdom
    United Kingdom

    The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....


    Other communities

    Other places named Chattanooga include Chattanooga, Oklahoma
    Chattanooga, Oklahoma

    Chattanooga is a town in Comanche County, Oklahoma and Tillman County, Oklahoma counties in the U.S. state of Oklahoma. The population was 432 at the United States Census, 2000....
     and a community named Chattanooga in Mercer County, Ohio
    Mercer County, Ohio

    Mercer County is a county located in the U.S. state of Ohio, United States. Its county seat is Celina, Ohio and is List of Ohio county name etymologies for Hugh Mercer, an officer in the American Revolutionary War....
    .

    See also

    • Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad
      Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad

      Originally chartered in 1881 as the Rome and Carrollton Railroad, the railroad's name became the Chattanooga, Rome and Columbus Railroad in 1887 before any tracks were constructed....
    • Chattanooga Choo Choo
      Chattanooga Choo Choo

      "Chattanooga Choo Choo" is a big-band/swing music song which was featured in the 1941 in film movie Sun Valley Serenade, which stared Sonja Henie, Glenn Miller and his orchestra, The Modernaires, Milton Berle and Joan Davis....
    • Silverdale Detention Center
      Silverdale Detention Center

      Silverdale Detention Center is a medium security prison located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This prison is currently in operation and is administrated by Corrections Corporation of America....
    • Bible in the Schools
      Bible in the Schools

      Bible in the Schools is a 501 not-for-profit located in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Its objective is to be the resource developer for biblical literacy in the and consultant to other Tennessee public school districts serving as a model for the nation....
    • CreateHere
      CreateHere

      CreateHere is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based non-profit organization that works to promote sustainable creative industries by attracting, retaining and engaging innovative and entrepreneurial individuals....
    • Benwood Foundation
      Benwood Foundation

      The Benwood Foundation is a charitable foundation created in 1944 by George Hunter in honor of his uncle, Benjamin Thomas who pioneered the Coca-Cola bottle industry and founded the Coca-Cola Bottling Company....
    • Lyndhurst Foundation
      Lyndhurst Foundation

      The Lyndhurst Foundation is a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based grant -making foundation organized in 1938 as The Memorial Welfare Foundation by Coca-Cola Bottling Company magnate Cartter Lupton....


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