Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / This view of the Tennessee River Gorge offers an example of the view from Aetna Mountain in November 2021, early in the development of Chattanooga developer John "Thunder" Thornton's 7,500-acre residential development, River Gorge Ranch. Thornton has filed a libel suit against two Marion County neighbors to the development over comments posted on social media.
Chattanooga developer John "Thunder" Thornton, owner of Thunder Air Inc., has filed a libel suit against two Marion County neighbors of his 7,500-acre mountaintop development, River Gorge Ranch, over negative remarks they allegedly made about the project on social media.
