Local History: Mitchell’s Gazetteer reports on Hamilton County in 1860
A gazetteer is a geographical dictionary or index used to locate, identify and describe places. It contains details like businesses, populations and physical features.
Local History: U.S. disaster at Taejon results in Hamilton County’s first Korean War casualties
On June 25, 1950, the world was shocked by news that the North Korean army was advancing into South Korea with the goal of uniting the Korean Peninsula under communist rule.
Local History: Lakesite celebrates 50 years of city government in 2022
In the late 1960s, after a "Fringe Area Study," the city of Chattanooga began a wave of annexations of areas to the north and east of the city, the culmination of a trend encouraged by a change in state annexation law in the mid-1950s.
Elliott: With war’s end, city returning to normal
The Union victory in the Battle of Chattanooga transformed the city into an armed camp swarming with blue uniforms, and swelled with the construction of warehouses, enhanced railroad facilities, mills, a shipyard, and a rolling mill and foundry, all meant to provide an advanced industrial base for Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman's invasion of Georgia.
Opinion: City well fortified at the end of the Civil War
In the spring of 1865, as the light of the southern Confederacy was in its final flicker, Brig. Gen. Zealous B. Tower, inspector general of fortifications for the Union Military Division of the Mississippi, visited Chattanooga.
Elliott: A bad place for horses at Chickamauga
For the Civil War enthusiast, among the charms of the Chickamauga Battlefield are the monuments and markers deep in the woods that are like hidden gems of history, telling stories of the heroic struggle of long-dead participants.
Elliott: Choosing sides in 1861: The Chattanooga Advertiser and Chattanooga Gazette
Many who deplore the partisanship of today's news organizations deem it a new phenomenon, recalling a tradition of "objective" journalism that perhaps reached its apogee in the mid-20th century.
Elliott: Clift’s convict stockade was Chattanooga mayor’s race issue
In the late 1860s, coal mining on an industrial scale came to Hamilton County and other areas of East Tennessee
Elliott: An Andrews Raiders escape artist aids Col. William Clift
One of the most famous exploits of the Civil War was the April 1862 mission led by James J. Andrews to infiltrate deep into Confederate territory with a goal to cut rail and communication lines between Atlanta and Chattanooga.
Elliott: The Cross Roads Treaty kept peace in Hamilton County for a brief time during Civil War
The civil strife that struck the United States in 1861 made its way to Hamilton County in the summer of that year.
