Chattanooga’s Forest Hills Cemetery (Images of America Series)

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Within 20 years of the tip of the Civil War, Chattanooga was once becoming the “Dynamo of Dixie.” Entrepreneurs and capital from the North were welcomed to the city. New railroads made the area a transportation hub. Fortunes were made in finance, industry, and tourism. Positioned at the foot of Lookout Mountain, St. Elmo was once Chattanooga’s first suburb. The founder of the then-independent town, A. M. Johnson and other community leaders chartered the Forest Hills Cemetery within the late 1870s. Many Chattanooga-area families obtained sites throughout the cemetery, now at the National Register of Historic Places. A rarity for the Reconstruction South, these families included various African Americans. From the famous to the infamous, from the remembered to the nearly forgotten, Images of The united states: Chattanooga’s Forest Hills Cemetery highlights various Chattanoogans interred on this picturesque historic cemetery.

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