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After fighting Nazi fascism and Japanese imperialism, victorious World War II veterans began returning home to McMinn County in late 1945. In their absence, Paul Cantrell and Pat Mansfield, with support from the E.H. Crump political machine, had tightened control over elected and appointed political offices in Athens and the county.
over 1 year ago
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What had begun as Judge Seth Walker’s campaign promise to “unite the people of Hamilton County” by constructing tunnels through Stringer’s Ridge and Missionary Ridge hit a snag.
about 1 year ago
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Like many Chattanoogans of a certain age, you may recall the purchase of your family’s first television set.
12 months ago
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Clarence T. Jones and his vision for Chattanooga’s own observatory gained regional and national support as the plans became public knowledge.
10 months ago
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Local history: Before there was Brainerd Road, there was Bird’s Mill Road
7 months ago
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Students of Tennessee history almost always recognize the name, Cordell Hull, even if they cannot quite identify that he was a congressman, a U.S. senator, the longest-serving U.S. secretary of State and the father of the United Nations.
7 months ago
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On Thursday, April 30, 1945, the Robert Sparks Walker Audubon Society announced that it was developing the Walker Farm near Brainerd.
6 months ago
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J.B. Cameron and William Barr, Scottish immigrants, opened their first bakery in Chattanooga in 1887 and, with the combination of hard work, the use of quality ingredients and careful expansion using personal finances over the next 38 years, their 1925 Main Street facility was proclaimed "the most complete bakery in East Tennessee."
4 months ago
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Chattanoogans learned in spring 1917 that major floods were not a thing of the past and that the high-water havoc of 1867, 1875 and 1886 would soon repeat itself.
4 months ago
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An April 1926 edition of the Chattanooga News posed the question: "What is the Little Theater of Chattanooga?" and then answered its own query.
3 months ago
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Local history: An art museum for Chattanooga
2 months ago