Several of Hamilton County's older residents remember the flood that occurred in 1973. Three days of heavy rain in March that year resulted in flooding that closed Lovell Field and more than 200 streets.
March 8, 1903, was a gray day in the yards of the Crescent Shipbuilding Co. in Elizabethport, N.J.
Nov. 24, 1863, at Chattanooga was a rainy, cloudy, misty, disagreeable day. It was also the day that Federal troops under Maj. Gen. Joseph…
Many in this area are familiar with the statue of Lt. Gen. Alexander P. Stewart in front of the Hamilton County Courthouse. Said to be a lifelike depiction of the general, it gazes benignly down on the occasional visitor to that part of the lawn. The green verdigris does not show the red hair and freckles that reflected Stewart's Scots-Irish descent. Few ask why, of all the Civil War veterans connected to Chattanooga, Stewart graces the front of our courthouse. The answer lies, in part, in what occurred in the Chattanooga area in 1863.
