The decade from 1861 to 1870 was a period of great upheaval in the state of Tennessee. The Constitution of 1834 strongly linked Tennessee to the Union and required a drawn-out process to effect any amendments to that document.
April 22, 2019, marked the 50th anniversary of a referendum approving the incorporation of Soddy-Daisy as a new municipality.
On the Chickamauga Battlefield the gravel Vittetoe Road, now closed to vehicle traffic, runs along the base of the hill complex now known as Horseshoe Ridge.
Currently, 57 men have served as governor of Tennessee.
The final Confederate defeat on Missionary Ridge on Nov. 25, 1863, ushered in a new era for Chattanooga.
The preliminary work to form the University of the South, begun on Lookout Mountain on July 4, 1857, by several Southern bishops of the Episcopal Church, was sufficiently advanced on Oct. 10, 1860, to lay a cornerstone for the anticipated main building at Sewanee of the new institution.
Nov. 26, 2018, marked the 50th anniversary of the vote to incorporate the Collegedale community as a Tennessee municipality.
As the calendar turned to November 1918, normal life was slowly returning to Chattanooga after a terrible month of October in which the Spanish Flu took lives and disrupted business.
Many older residents of Soddy-Daisy remember the months in 1973 and 1974 when their telephone prefix temporarily switched from "332" to "843." This phenomenon occurred as a result of a spectacular crime on the evening of March 31, 1973.
After Hamilton County's organization in 1819, the first county court was held at the tavern and stock stand of Hasten Poe, at a location known at the time as Poe's Crossroads.
