(For the most up-to-date and accurate information, see the entry "South Hamilton Co. TN communities and placenames" at https://notesfromtheninthcircle.blogspot.com/2017/01/south-hamilton-co-communities-and.html)
When I was younger—much, much younger—I used to wonder when I heard my older relatives talking about my dad being born in Alton Park, my maternal grandfather being from East Chattanooga, my paternal grandmother being born in East Lake and going to church in Ridgedale, and my cousins living in Tiftonia.
When I was younger—much, much younger—I used to wonder when I heard my older relatives talking about my dad being born in Alton Park, my maternal grandfather being from East Chattanooga, my paternal grandmother being born in East Lake and going to church in Ridgedale, and my cousins living in Tiftonia.
After I
returned from the Philippines near the end of 1991, I began researching local
history, first focusing on East Brainerd, with my best source being Becky
Eaves. For Native American history, my
primary human source was ethnohistorian Raymond Evans. For other than for East Brainerd, I have
found the local history section on the 3rd floor of the
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library to be an incredible source.
The
following is based on research from the large collection of historic maps,
newspaper clippings, and books on local affairs that section offers. The suburbs here are those directly dependent
on Chattanooga and founded in the city’s “Dynamo of Dixie” era. Most, but not all, were annexed before or in
1930. The boundaries listed are not from
scientific surveys, and many suburbs were not exactly square.
In the
beginning of what would become the City of Chattanooga, there was Ross’ Landing
trading post. There was a ferry too, which
crossed the Tennessee River to Lower Ferry Road to link up with the county seat
at Dallas. Contrary to common belief,
the Landing was named for Lewis Ross, not his brother John. Lewis, who lived in what became Charleston,
Tennessee, was the businessman of the family while John was the politician.
John never
lived in Rossville’s Chief John Ross House either. His grandfather, John McDonald, who sold the
land that became Brainerd Mission did, however, and so later did John’s
daughter and son-in-law, Nicholas Scales.
When the
little town first incorporated, it adopted the name of a Cherokee town
abandoned by the Removal that was a few miles distant, Tsatanugi, or
Chattanooga. No one knows why that name
was chosen rather than that of the closer Cherokee town of Citico (at the mouth
of Citico Creek), but it may have been because of the farm and tannery of
Daniel Ross located near Tsatanugi, in the area that became St. Elmo.
In the
area of the later town of St. Elmo and former town of Tsatanugi, another
village grew up called Kirklen, named after one of the original post-Removal
settlers.
The
original borders of the town were the river in the north, James St. (9th,
or MLK, between Chestnut and Market Sts.) in the south, Georgia Avenue on the
side of Brabson Hill in the east, and Cypress St. at the foot of Cameron Hill
in the west. Its main street has always
been Market St., its second street, now Broad, at first named Mulberry St.,
became Railroad Ave. in 1850.
In 1851,
the city annexed territory out to what are now Baldwin St. in the east and W. 23rd St. (then Missionary Ave.) in the west; these were the city
boundaries in the Civil War. After the
war in 1869, the city expanded to Central Ave. (then East End Ave.) in the east
and W. 28th St. (then Chattanooga Ave.) in the West.
Downtown
Chattanooga’s
“official” Downtown has always been the same as the original town, of which
four streets to the west of Pine St. (Poplar, Cedar, Cypress, and Pleasant)
were obliterated by the construction of the freeway. Also lost from downtown to the freeway was
Stillhouse Hollow between Cameron and Reservoir (Kirkman) Hill.
Irish Hill once sat between Cherry, Lindsay, 8th,
and 9th Sts. Many do not
realize that the first railroads into Chattanooga (Western & Atlantic and
East Tennessee & Virginia) were built by the same workforce that did so
elsewhere in the country: immigrant Irish.
Most accounts tell that this population disappeared with the arrival of
the Civil War. However, that leaves
unexplained how the Irish of Chattanooga contributed a regiment to the Fenian
Brotherhood’s Army of Irish Liberation’s invasion of Canada in 1867. Sts. Peter and Paul Church is all that
remains today of that community.
Bluff View was once the premier place for the
wealthy to live in downtown Chattanooga.
At the end of High St., it survives as Hunter Art Museum, Houston
Museum, and Mary Portero’s Bluff View Arts District, which preserves the great
majority of the former homes.
Cameron Hill was a prestigious West Side neighborhood
in its own right, with two houses along its crest and others on Cameron Dr.,
with slightly less prestigious homes along its southern end on East Terrace and
West Terrace. A spacious Boynton Park
once adorned its peak, only to become fill dirt for the freeway. In its place, the Cameron Hill Apartments
were constructed, now replaced by offices for Blue Cross/Blue Shield.
The upper
ends of Cherry, Walnut, Lookout, and High Sts. and Georgia Avenue were also
once affluent residential areas.
West Side
The West
Side once included the area beyond Cameron Hill and the residential area between W.
MLK (once W. 9th St.) Blvd. and W. Main St. (once Montgomery Ave.),
from the river in the west to Carter Street in the east. The north-south cross streets included Pine,
College, Poplar, Cedar, Cypress, and Grove Sts.
Nearly all the West Side fell to the freeway and to the Golden Gateway
“urban renewal”; all that remained were
two small streets of row houses, but these too fell to the bulldozers when
Findley Stadium was built.
During the post-bellum, Second Industrial Revolution, the entire West Side was owned by the Roane Iron Company, then by the Chattanooga Land, Coal, Iron, and Railway Company. The Roane Iron Works served as the centerpiece and main source of jobs in the manufacturing district west of Cameron Hill. When the iron works closed due to being unable to compete with modernized techniques adopted by northern factories, the works shut down, and so did much of the West Side. From being a mostly working class district, it became a center of poverty.
Until the Golden Gateway came, W. 9th St. passed south of Cameron Hill and the one which crossed it where W. MLK Blvd. now does was W. 6th St.
College Hill is actually a lower hill west of Cameron
Hill, as one can see from the large panoramic photo behind the desk of the
library’s local history section. It
remains as the College Hill Courts, or Westside projects. Despite the fact that the hill and surrounding flats were farther from the pollution of the factories to the immediate west, this was where the rank-and-file of the factories lived, with a longer commute. In the early 20th century, the name College
Hill was synonymous with what we now called Westside.
Tannery Flats was a tenement that was originally
company housing for the workers of the Chattanooga Tannery, which once stood
along the river west of Cameron Hill. It
lay south of where W. 6th St. (now W. MLK Blvd.) came over the
hill. Of its four or five small blocks,
only Ash St. remains. During the heyday of Roane Iron, this was where the middle management lived.
Blue Goose Hollow was a slum north of where W. 6th St. (W. MLK
Blvd.) came over Cameron Hill. It began
as a company housing for workers at Roane Iron Works and is famous for being
the birthplace of the Empress of the Blues, Bessie Smith. Fulton St. is all that remains. The upper management of Roane Iron lived here.
The public
wharf was along the river at the end of W. Montgomery Ave. (W. Main St.).
East Side
The East
Side runs between E. MLK Blvd. (formerly E. 9th St.) and the river,
from Georgia Ave. to Baldwin St., and at one time included some of the most
posh neighborhoods in the city, along with some of its worst slum areas. Some of the East Side has been taken over by
buildings and parking lots for Unum Provident, but most of the East Side that
has disappeared has been swallowed up by the growing campus of the University
of Tennessee at Chattanooga (UTC).
Battery Place lies along the street of the same name
between the river and Riverfront Parkway, formerly the site of a Civil War
battery. It was, and still is, one of
the more prestigious areas in which to live downtown.
The Big Nine is the nickname for the stretch of E. 9th St. (E. MLK Blvd.), particularly between Houston and Magnolia Sts., that was
the paramount cultural and commercial center of the African-American community
in Chattanooga. Amongst the barber
shops, retail stores, and numerous clubs, its center-piece until 1985 was the
Martin Hotel. It once stood where the
Bessie Smith Hall is now.
Tadetown was the residential area for African-Americans
that sprang up after the Civil War along the north side of E. 9th St.
Scruggstown was the residential area for
African-Americans that sprang up after the War along the south side of E. 9th St.
East 8th Street, from Mabel St.
to East End (now Central) Ave. was once a vibrant neighborhood in its own
right.
The University
of Chattanooga (UC) in the late 19th and early 20th centuries occupied only the block bound by McCallie Ave. and Douglas, Oak, and
Baldwin Sts., and it shared the block with one of the public elementary
schools. It did, however, also own the
block between Douglas and Baldwin to Vine Street.
The Whiteside Flats were cheaper rental
housing in the vicinity of UC.
Fort Wood, currently occupying the area between Palmetto
and 5th Sts. and McCallie and Central Aves., at one time extended
west to the line of the East Tennessee, Virginia, & Georgia Railroad, which
is now barely discernible on the UTC campus.
Park Place originally lay Park and East End (now
Central) Aves. And 10th and Flynn Sts., the south side of the
latter, which in the late 19th century was called St. Charles
St. It can now be said to take in the
territory to Magnolia St.
Onion Bottom lies between East 11th St.,
Central Ave., and the East End switchyards.
If you doubt it is bottom land, wait for the next gullywasher. In the early 20th century, it
contained the city workhouse, a dump, a coal processing plant, and one of the
largest and most notorious slums in the city, with a mixed population.
South Chattanooga
South
Chattanooga is not simply a geographic designation, it was a land company that
developed the area for residential housing.
Everything south of Main Street to W. 23rd St. (or the freeway
since its construction) and west of Market St. is South Chattanooga.
Hooterville lies south of the freeway to Chattanooga
Creek. That’s the name the locals have
given it and those who know them.
Fort Negley, built around the site of the Civil War
fort, stands east of Market St. to Rossville Ave. and Washington St., between
Main and W. 20th Sts.
Jefferson Heights lies east of Fort
Negley but straddles Main St., with Madison St. as its east boundary and the
railroad to the south.
Cowart Place is south of Main St., across South
Market St. from Fort Negley, extending south to the freeway.
The Suburbs
Though
Chattanooga has always had satellite communities since even before the Civil
War, its real historic suburbs did not come into existence until its speedy and
broad industrial expansion during its “Dynamo of Dixie” years in the latter 19th century.
Until the
late 1880s, the primary suburbs for Chattanooga were St. Elmo (originally
named Kirklen) and Hill City on the north side of the river. Beginning with the economic boom of 1887,
however, numerous suburbs spread across the Chattanooga Valley beyond the city
limits, which for decades rested at East End (Central) Ave. and Chattanooga
Ave. (West 28th St.). Each of
these suburbs had at least minimal self-government, some of which were
incorporated towns. These differed from
subdivisions, generally called “additions” at this time.
The
opening of the Walnut Street Bridge paved the way for explosive growth north of
the river and spurred development south of it as well.
This
system of suburbs was bound together by one of the country’s best trolley
systems, the Chattanooga Union Belt Railway.
Alton Park lies south of W. 37th St.,
east of Alton Park Blvd., and north of W. 47th St., and is bordered
on the west by Hawkins Ridge. It began
life as Oak Hills. It was annexed in
1930.
Amnicola was the large farm of first the Crutchfield
family and later the Montagues along the Tennessee River, south and west of
South Chickamauga Creek and northwest of the railroad.
Angora Hill is the eastern wing of the U-shaped
eminence north of Trueblood Hill/north end of Missionary Ridge joined to Billy
Goat Hill by a narrow ridge. It was
occupied by Union troops under Sherman’s command during the Battle of
Missionary Ridge. Gun emplacements and rifle
pits from the battle still exist.
Avondale originally lay between the railroad and Missionary Ridge,
north of Wilson St. and south of what is now Infantry St.; later it spread south to Citico Ave. It was annexed in 1923.
Belvoir was the residential area around the large home
of Col. W.R. Crabtree that became part of the larger community of Brainerd.
Billy Goat Hill lies at the end of
Chamberlain Ave., which at one time was Sherman Blvd. beyond Wilcox Blvd. It is the westwing of the U-shaped eminence
north of the end of Missionary Ridge. It
was occupied by Union troops under Sherman’s command during the Battle of
Missionary Ridge. Gun emplacements and rifle
pits from the battle still exist.
Black Bottom got its name from the coal sludge dumped
into Chattanooga Creek from the factories lining its path through the
valley. An effort was once made to
restyle it “Harrisburg”. Now the site of
Piney Woods housing complex, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries its population was nearly all white.
It was annexed in 1930.
Boulevard Park was a suburb in its own right that lay
west of Rossville Blvd. below E. 40th St. opposite Cedar Hills, and
is now that suburb’s western half. It
was annexed in 1925.
Boyce was an organized town east of Boyce Station on
the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway and the Citico yards between Elmendorf
and Cushman Sts. and Dodson Ave. It later absorbed the community of East Chattanooga (East Section), then became part of the greater town of East Chattanooga after merging with Sherman Heights.
Bozentown came into being around 1910 within what was
originally supposed to be East Chattanooga, between the railroad and the
river. It lies between the much later
subdivisions of Sherwood Forest and Riverside Park. Its “main street” was and is Wood Ave., upon
which the First Baptist Church of Bozentown sat until recently (it now occupies
the former Ridgedale Methodist, where my grandmother attended church). It (along with its neighbors) was annexed in
1968.
Brainerd came into being in 1926 when the smaller
communities of Olde Towne, Sunnyside, Dutchtown, Belvoir, and the Mission
merged by popular vote under that name.
It was annexed in 1930.
Brown’s Ferry, also called Brown’s Valley, is the northern
section of Lookout Valley, more or less everything north of Cummings Highway to
the Tennessee River.
Bushtown was the first black-governed municipality in
the State of Tennessee. The suburb lays
between the railroad, Citico Ave., E. 3rd St., and Orchard Knob Ave. It was annexed in 1923.
Cedar Grove is listed as a community of 109 residents in the Chattanooga City Directory of 1900, this community had a depot on the Belt Line between National Cemetery and Orchard Knob. It was, perhaps, the name for the community between Olympia/Warner Park and the National Cemetery west of Holtzclaw Avenue.
Cedar Grove is listed as a community of 109 residents in the Chattanooga City Directory of 1900, this community had a depot on the Belt Line between National Cemetery and Orchard Knob. It was, perhaps, the name for the community between Olympia/Warner Park and the National Cemetery west of Holtzclaw Avenue.
Cedar Hills lies at the foot of Missionary Ridge
south of E. 40th St. and east
of Rossville Blvd., though it is now considered to take in the former Boulevard
Park west of the boulevard (in fact, Cedar Hills Schools is there). It was annexed in 1925.
Churchville is Bushtown’s nextdoor neighbor, and
lies within Citico Ave., E. 3rd St., Orchard Knob Ave., and N. Willow St., extending to Dodson Ave. between Blackford St. and E. 3rd St. Like Bushtown, Churchville
originated as a black-governed municipality in the late 19th century, next to the Belt Line station called Stanleytown. It was annexed in 1923.
Citico City lies west of the railroad and north of
E. 3rd St., and extended west to East End Avenue, originally founded in the early 1880s for Afro-American workers at the Citico Furnace. Lincoln Park, the actual park founded in 1918 from which the neighborhood gets its modern name, once lay between East End Ave. and
Wiehl St until the hospital expanded to include it; a much reduced park remains. It was annexed in 1886.
Clifton Hills straddles Rossville Blvd. below E. 28th St. down to E. 32nd St. east of Rossville Blvd. and to E. 33rd St. west of it. It was annexed in 1925.
Curtain Pole was the community in the vicinity of the H.L. Judd factory, built about 1890. Later Sherman Hill Baptist Church formed the center of the community. Off Amnicola Highway along the road of the same name.
Doty, so named for Doty’s Junction station where the line of the Belt Railway connected with Central of Georgia Railway, lay about halfway between Alton Park and Poeville.
Curtain Pole was the community in the vicinity of the H.L. Judd factory, built about 1890. Later Sherman Hill Baptist Church formed the center of the community. Off Amnicola Highway along the road of the same name.
Doty, so named for Doty’s Junction station where the line of the Belt Railway connected with Central of Georgia Railway, lay about halfway between Alton Park and Poeville.
Dutchtown once stood in the area of the Lerch St. and
Glendon Place neighborhoods and was the residential area around the dairy of
Jacob Kellerhalls that later became part of the greater community of Brainerd.
East Chattanooga comprises everything
north of Ocoee St. between the railroad and the Ridge until Campbell St. passes
east thru Fords Gap. As it now
stands, this suburb came largely as the merger of the former town of Boyce with
the suburb of Sherman Heights. Originally,
East Chattanooga was going to be a planned town between the Cincinnati Southern Railroad and the Tennessee River; this section was later known as East Chattanooga (West Section). The only part of that actually
inhabited was the African-American community of Bozentown. East Chattanooga (East Section) was developed
east of the tracks north of the town of Boyce, originally under the latter’s
name, before changing to East Chattanooga. The station on the Southern
Railway for Sherman Heights was East Chattanooga, and Sherman Heights merged
into the town of East Chattanooga around 1910.
East Chattanooga was annexed in 1923.
Eastdale came together as Hornville in the 1890’s,
changing its name to Eastdale in 1909 in hopes of soon being annexed. The former Eastdale Baptist Church moved to
Ooltewah-Ringgold Rd. and became Eastwood Baptist. It was annexed in 1957.
East End, a name which has largely disappeared from
usage except maybe by longer term residents, was for a long time one of
Chattanooga’s largest suburbs, home to a sizable working class population that worked in many of the surrounding factories. Its station on the Belt Line was called Rathcliff.
Currently it lies south of E. 34th St. between Jerome Ave.,
Hamill Rd., and 4th Ave., though many people refer to the area as
part of East Lake. It was annexed in
1930.
East Lake lies along the foot of Missionary Ridge between
E. 28th and E. 40th Sts. and 4th Ave., its
central attraction being the still beautiful East Lake Park. It was annexed in 1925.
East Ridge is a town that was organized in 1921 to
prevent annexation from the earlier communities of Penny Row, Nickel Street, and
Smokey Row, later taking in the Spring Creek and Scruggs Bridge communities. It is still independent.
East St. Elmo (see Poeville)
Eden Park was one of the more prominent subdivisions in
Highland Park suburb, from Willow St. to Lyerly St., between Main St. and
Anderson Ave.
Ferger Place was a very posh subdivision in Oak Grove
suburb on Morningside and Eveningside Drives.
It remains quite attractive.
Fort Cheatham, once the site of the headquarters of
the Confederate general of that name during the Army of Tennessee’s siege of
Chattanooga, is at the foot of Missionary Ridge between the freeway, E. 28th St. and 4th Ave. It was,
ironically (given its namesake), one of the oldest historically black
suburbs. It was annexed in 1925.
Foust Place, south of the freeway between S. Hickory
St. and 4th Ave. and north of E. 28th St. It began life as the suburb of New England
Park, but came to be called by the name of the housing development that covered
its entire territory. It was annexed in
1925.
Gamble Town is the section of St. Elmo at the turn
of the 19th and 20th centuries centered around Harris
Ave. that was populated by African-Americans.
Glenwood lies north of McCallie Ave. next to Missionary
Ridge, west to Derby St. and north to E. 3rd St., taking in Derby
Cir. It was annexed in 1922.
Gobbler’s Peak is a knoll just south of Bozentown.
Hell’s Half Acre was one of the most
interestingly-named areas of Chattanooga.
Or I should say “three”, since there were three areas so-nicknamed. The “main” neighborhood so-called was between E. 16th St. and the railroad to the south, taking in Doris, Fillmore,
Fagan, and Polk Sts. within those bounds.
There was another Hell’s Half Acre next to Tannery Flats and yet one
more Hell’s Half Acre near Moses St., which once ran near W. 19th St.
beyond Riverside Drive.
Highland Park lies between McCallie and Holtzclaw
Aves. and Main and S. Lyerly Sts. The
elevated part of the suburb is the Civil War-era Indian Hill. Highland Park Baptist still stands in its
original location. The suburb was
annexed in 1929.
Hill City originated as Camp Contraband during the Civil
War. Its boundaries are Manning St.,
Stringer’s Ridge, and the backside of North Market St. At one time, it was a mixed municipality
which stretched to Forest (later Forrest, now Forest again) Ave. It merged with the town of North Chattanooga
in the 1920s.
Hornville (see East Dale)
Indian Springs
The
northern portion of what later became Glenwood, so called for having been the
site of one of the two internment camps during the Cherokee Removal in Hamilton
County.
Fords Gap is the gap between
Trueblood (Tunnel) Hill of Missionary Ridge and Billy Goat Hill.
Lincoln Park (see Citico City)
Lookout Mountain incorporated in 1891,
the same year Crawfish Springs, Georgia, changed its name to Chickamauga in
honor of the soon-to-be national military park.
It’s still independent.
Lovell Air Field – Originally established
in 1928 on pasture land owned by Dr. J. B. Haskins as Brainerd Aviation Field, its
terminal sat across the tracks from Chickamauga Station and the adjacent
village of Chickamauga, later called Shepherd.
It was renamed for founder of the Aero Club of Chattanooga (1917), John E.
Lovell, when it became the official airport of the city in 1930.
Lookout Valley is the community in the valley west of
Lookout Mountain from the stateline to the Tennessee River. The Cherokee town of Tuskegee was there
before the Removal, and for a long time the area was called Wauhatchie. It acquired the name Tiftonia from a late 19th
century housing development. However, to
locals this name meant just the middle section straddling Cummings Highway; the
northern section was Brown’s Ferry and the southern section near the railroad
station was still Wauhatchie. It was
annexed in three stages in 1972, 1995, and 2003.
Lupton City is on the south end of Lupton Drive
below Hixon Pike. It was founded as a
company town for workers at Dixie Spinning Mills finishing plant. It was annexed in 1968.
Marr Aviation Field – The
Chattanooga City Chamber of Commerce opened the city’s first airfield in 1919,
dedicated to local aviation pioneer Walter L. Marr, in the open area bound by
the Cincinnati & Southern to the west, Dodson Ave. to the east, Avondale to
the south, and Anderson (now Crutchfield) St. to the north. It ceased to operate in 1934.
Mindell Park was a fashionable, though less
prestigious than Ferger Place, neighborhood of the suburb of Oak Grove. It lay along Orchard Knob Ave. and Hawthorne
St.
The Mission was the loosely-defined area in the
vicinity of the former Brainerd Mission to the Cherokee across the creek from
Old Chickamauga Town. It became part of
Brainerd.
Mission Ridge Junction, which gets its name from the junction of the Belt Line with Missionary Ridge Incline Railway, lay between the Ridge and South Lyerly Avenue from Kirby Avenue to McCallie Avenue. It has been entirely swallowed up by McCallie School.
Mission Ridge Junction, which gets its name from the junction of the Belt Line with Missionary Ridge Incline Railway, lay between the Ridge and South Lyerly Avenue from Kirby Avenue to McCallie Avenue. It has been entirely swallowed up by McCallie School.
Missionary Ridge lies along the crest of
the ridge of the same name and was incorporated in 1891, the same year as
Lookout Mountain, Tennessee, and Chickamauga, Georgia.
Mountain Junction, also known as South
St. Elmo, lies between Forest Hills and Lookout Mountain from W. 47th St. to the stateline. It was annexed in
1930.
New England Park (see Foust Place)
North Chattanooga began as a planned town
in 1913 and was incorporated the same year.
Its boundary was originally Forest Ave.
In 1915, the town forbade African-Americans from living in its limits,
an ordinance made practically null and void by its later annexation of Hill
City, which was a majority black town.
North Chattanooga was annexed in 1930.
Oak Grove sits north of the freeway between Holtzclaw Ave. and S. Lyerly St. to Main St. Among others, it contains the subdivisions of Ferger Place and Mindell Park. It was annexed to the city in 1913.
Oak Hills (see Alton Park)
Olde Towne was the business section and its immediate
neighborhood of what became Brainerd by popular vote in 1926, east of Tunnel
Blvd.
Orange Grove borders the Chattanooga National
Cemetery on the south and sits north of the railroads tracks between Central
and Holtzclaw Aves. Orange Grove School
was originally here, which is how it got its name. It was annexed in 1913.
Orchard Knob is north of McCallie Ave. and south of
E. 3rd St., between Holtzclaw Ave. and N. Lyerly St. It was annexed in 1922.
Park City, one of the smaller suburbs, is north of Doyle
St., along Cannon Ave., all of it east of Rossville Blvd. It was annexed in 1930.
Piney Woods (see Black Bottom)
Poeville, also called Arlington, East St. Elmo, or South Alton Park,
lies along both sides of Central Ave. east of Mountain Junction and Forest
Hills south of Piney Woods. It was
annexed in 1930.
Ridgedale lies adjacent to the Ridge between the freeway
and Kirby Ave., west to S. Lyerly Ave.
Its former Methodist Church which my grandmother attended is now First
Baptist of Bozentown. Ridgedale Baptist
is now on Hickory Valley Rd. It was
annexed in 1913.
Ridgeside is that part of Sunnyside which
self-incorporated rather than be annexed into Chattanooga along with the rest
of Brainerd. It includes the
subdivisions of Shepherd Hills and Crescent Park. It is still independent.
Riverview is
separated from North Chattanooga by Hixon Pike.
Once centered around the 30-room Lyndhurst mansion of John T. Lupton and
still taking in the Chattanooga Golf and Country Club, this suburb was annexed
in 1930.
Rosstown once lay north of McCallie Ave. between Derby
and Kelly Sts. up to E. 3rd St.
At one time it was populous and prosperous enough to sponsor a baseball
team in the city’s local Negro League.
Parkridge Hospital now occupies a good deal of the former suburb, and
only two small of its original blocks remain. It was annexed in 1922.
Rustville, named for a Dr. Rust, was not in South Chattanooga as the current
real estate designation has it. It spread south of Chattanooga Creek and west of Alton Park Blvd. above W. 37th Street and also included the area now known as Hooterville. It was annexed to Chattanooga in
1930.
St. Elmo (Kirklen) lies between Hawkins’ Ridge and
Lookout Mountain north of 47th St.
The oldest suburb of Chattanooga, it began life as Kirklen before the
Civil War and was renamed because of a novel based there. It was annexed in 1930.
Sherman Heights was a prestigious
suburb of the late 1890s that sprang up north of Crutchfield St. and east of
Dodson Ave., extending up onto the foot of Missionary Ridge to the east. It was more or less the same area as the
currently-designated Glass Farm District.
The suburb’s Glass Street was Chattanooga’s first paved street. It merged with East Chattanooga after 1905.
South Alton Park (see Poeville)
South St. Elmo (see Mountain Junction)
Stanleyville was a historically black community north of Blackford St. and south of Citico Ave. between what are now N. Willow St. and Arlington Ave. that eventually got swallowed up by Churchville. It was annexed in 1923.
Suburba
The southern portion of what later became Glenwood, so called after the post office of that name on the Mission Ridge Incline Railway.
Stanleyville was a historically black community north of Blackford St. and south of Citico Ave. between what are now N. Willow St. and Arlington Ave. that eventually got swallowed up by Churchville. It was annexed in 1923.
Suburba
The southern portion of what later became Glenwood, so called after the post office of that name on the Mission Ridge Incline Railway.
Sunnyside was the residential area east of Tunnel Blvd. that
grew up around the home of Judge R.B. Cooke and later became part of the
greater community of Brainerd.
Tiftonia is the middle section of Lookout Valley.
Trueblood Hill is the northernmost hill of Missionary
Ridge, called Tunnel Hill by Confederate Maj. Gen. Patrick Cleburne as well as
his opponent Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman.
It is separated from Billy Goat Hill by Fords Gap.
Wauhatchie is the southern section of Lookout
Valley.
White City sits west of Jerome Ave., south of E. 32nd St., and includes everything to Chattanooga Creek. It was annexed in 1930.
