chattanooga

     

Chattanooga is the fourth-largest city in Tennessee (after Memphis, Nashville, an Knoxville), and the seat of Hamilton County, in the United States of America. It is located in southeast Tennessee on Chickamauga and Nickajack Lake, which are both part of the Tennessee River, near the border of Georgia, and at the junction of three interstate highways, I-24, I-75, and I-59.

Trivia about chattanooga

  • The name of this Tennessee city is from the Creek, meaning "rock rising to a point", not "choo choo"
  • This port of southeastern Tennessee was a key city during the Civil War
  • You can spend the night in a Victorian style railroad car at the Choo Choo Hilton in this city
  • Lookout Mountain just south of this southern Tennessee city offers tourists a view of 7 states
  • Adolph Ochs, who bought into the New York Times in 1896, "train"ed at this Tennessee city's Times
  • The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway, one of the world's steepest, starts in this "Choo Choo" city
  • The Battle of Missionary Ridge was a chief encounter of the 1863 battle of this southeastern city
  • The Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum is in this city, a railroad center