Chattanooga
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- Names
Chattanooga
Ross' Landing
Old French Store
Rosss Landing
Rosss Store
Rosss Warehouse
Rosss Wharf
- Place Type
- inhabited place
- Description
- Located on Tennessee River in SE Tennessee; name came from Amerindian expression for nearby Lookout Mountain; railroad stimulated economic growth in 1850s; Confederate communications point during Civil War where Federal armies successfully fought in 1863.
- Authority
- Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- Source
- Encyclopaedia Britannica (1988); Times Atlas of World History (1989); USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1984); Webster's Geographical Dictionary (1988);
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