The latest Chattanooga 250 coverage from the Chattanooga Times Free Press, part of our Local section.
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When German representatives from Volkswagen hopped into a TVA helicopter almost two decades ago to get a bird's-eye view of Enterprise South Industrial Park, they generally liked what they saw.
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.
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A bright blue historic marker stands downtown along M.L. King Boulevard, the most recent public acknowledgement of a violent chapter that Eric Atkins and other Chattanoogans don't want forgotten.
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For most of the 20th century, Chattanooga's economic activity could be seen in the smog that often hovered between its mountains and ridges.
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The term Tennessee Valley Authority first appeared in the Chattanooga Times on April 8, 1933, in an announcement of a daring federal proposal from newly elected President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
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From the 1940 Glenn Miller swing standard "Chattanooga Choo Choo," which planted the city in the popular imagination, to musical legends like Bessie Smith and The Impressions, to modern stars like Samuel L. Jackson, Leslie Jordan, Usher and Kane Brown, the Scenic City has made its impression across the country's popular culture scene.
Nearly a century before Glenn Miller made Chattanooga famous with his World War II classic hit song "Chattanooga Choo Choo," rail traffic was shaping Southeast Tennessee.
In 1920, Tennessee became the 36th state to ratify the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote, and was the final state needed to achieve a two-thirds majority for passage.
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."
A year before Union and Confederate forces clashed outright in hard-fought battles for control of Chattanooga, a secretive plot saw a stolen train make its way through North Georgia. Andrews' Raid, or "The Great Locomotive Chase" as it has otherwise become popularly known, took place in April 1862.
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.
