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Your Wednesday at a glance:

Greetings, Chattanooga!

Did you know that at the beginning of the 20th century, Cameron Hill was one of the toniest addresses in Chattanooga, a bastion of high society populated in large part by transplanted Northern families after the Civil War?

But by mid-century, the neighborhood was wiped away to make way for urban renewal.

Now, a newly discovered batch of historic photos shows the once-proud Westside homes – before they were flattened by progress in the late 1950s. See them here.