Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1913-04-10
MANY POINTS INTEREST
VISITORS TO CHATTANOOGA
Complete List Given for Yet
GFaDS' Benefit

/ Chattanooga, Tenn April 9.-Refef-
ence has been made from time to time
i'll this correspondence to points Of
interest around Chattanooga. The
reader will better understand what
these points are if more detail is said
about them
Tie point of most interest, perhaps,
to all tourists is Lookout mountain.
This mountain rises about $500 feet
above the level of the valley in which
! Chattanooga is located 1t lies to the
west of the city, and is in plain vie Y
of the business and residential dis
tricts. The mountain is reached b.
trolley lines to St Elmo, and incline
road to the top of the mountain 1t
will be of interest to most readers to
say mere llldJ Jut SCSHt Vi WI .. AZ
gusta Evans Wilson's famous novel
st. Elmo" that has been read by the
thousands, was laid in the valleE
along the slopes of Lookout mountain
The suburb took its name from this
book.
Lookout mountain is a summer re-
sort for the South. 1t is covered At
convenient distances with cottages for
summer living, but of recent years
many palatial homes have been built
in this land above the clouds, and
people reside there all the year round.
The view from many points on Look
out mountain is unrivaled in beauty.
Chickamauga national park and FIT.
Oglethorpe army post, combine 10
make that historic field a point of il
terest AS Chickamauga furnishes
the high water mark for casualties in
battle, it also marks high water mark
for monuments, markers and historic
tablets, all being included under the
head of memorials. There are more
memorials on these fields than any
other in existence. They are ahead &c
Gettysburg, even, in numbers. The
army post and battlefield combine .
make Chickamauga a point of great
interest to all tourists who visit thu
South.
Missionary ridge and Orchard KNOB
are famed in war, and worth the
price and trouble of a visit. Both
points are reached from the heart of
the city by trolley lines at a cost of
five cents.
There are a number of old forts IN
the business and residential districts
of Chattanooga that have historic in
terest These forts, however, have
been built over by business blocks and
residences. Historical tablets are
placed to mark the sites of all for.s
over which enterprise has spread IFS
wings. Cameron hill, west of the bus
mess sections of the city, is point
worth visiting This hill towers about
| 500 fest above the level of the valley.
The city has built public park on
the summit of the hill The view from
the top of Cameron hill is very fine.
Across the Tennessee river, north OF
! the city, there are a number of poin-s
, of interest. The best of these, how
ever, is Signal mountain, sometimes
called Walden's ridge, a spur of the
Cumberlands This mountain range
has an average altitude of 1000 feet
above sea level, with peaks running
up five hundred feet higher. Recently
a magnificent automobile roadway has
been built, by Mr. C. E. James to tn )
crest of this mountain, with SPLEEN
did hotel on Signal Point, one of the
highest peaks
This new road is not excelled ANY,
where in the Southern states. A troll
ley is also nearing completion to the
top of the mountain, having its term
mus at the new hotel. Stringer's ridge
an Intervening line of hills between
the CITY and Signal mountain. is of