3+ hour, 43+ min ago  (981+ words) Chattanooga: Its every suburb was a battlefield. These are the words that open the first chapter of historian Zella Armstrong's second volume of "The History of Hamilton County and Chattanooga, Tennessee." "Some of the battles are of world wide fame,…...

2+ day, 7+ hour ago  (40+ words) As America prepares to celebrate its 250th birthday, a Chattanooga tradition is about to turn 51. It was born in 1975, just ahead of the nation's bicentennial. Remember When, Chattanooga? Scenic City tradition was born ahead of nation's bicentennial...

4+ day, 7+ hour ago  (85+ words) As the nation celebrates 250 years, the Chattanooga Times Free Press is looking back at the history of our region and the moments that made Chattanooga. In 1776, the region destined to become Chattanooga was increasingly desired by European settlers. The Chattanooga…...

4+ day, 8+ hour ago  (1357+ words) Not even a century removed from the Revolutionary War that secured U. S. independence from the British crown, this fledgling nation went to war with itself -- and Chattanooga would become a critical battleground in the conflict. By the mid-1800s, slavery had become a…...

4+ day, 9+ hour ago  (62+ words) Chattanooga Times Free Press Chattanooga 250: City born as gateway to the West amid Indian removal Town once named for Cherokee chief takes on name from Muscogee language In 1838, Ross's Landing, the town that would become Chattanooga, was home to about…...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (28+ words) Chattanooga Times Free Press Chattanooga 250: Trail of Tears marked pivotal time in U. S. history...

4+ day, 10+ hour ago  (67+ words) Chattanooga Times Free Press Chattanooga 250 years ago: Indigenous homeland uprooted in frontier struggle Chickamauga Cherokee Dragging Canoe led opposition against settlers As the Declaration of Independence was being forged in Philadelphia in 1776, the rugged frontier region destined to become Chattanooga…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (64+ words) Chattanooga Times Free Press Losing Ground: Historic Black neighborhoods in Chattanooga face new pressures Nikki Lake held her first grandchild inside her $1, 500-a-month Avondale rental " three times what she paid when she first came to East Chattanooga " as new townhouses…...

2+ week, 10+ hour ago  (937+ words) Wood, a professor emeritus at Brown University, died Sunday after being struck by a car in a supermarket parking lot in East Providence, Rhode Island, according to police. In 2011, President Barack Obama presented him a National Humanities Medal "for scholarship…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago  (394+ words) My mother, Barbara Vaughan Woodward Garside, was born in Whitman, Massachusetts in 1913, and she often spoke and wrote about Decoration Day (Memorial Day) as a serious rite of spring. Planning and preparing for decorating graves, marching in the parade and…...