page_title: Lookout Mountain
section_title: Settlements
hierarchical_section_title: Lookout Mountain / History / Settlements
caption_attribution_description: Lookout Mountain, as viewed from Signal Mountain. The photo shows that the mountain is actually a plateau.
context_page_description: Lookout Mountain is a mountain ridge located at the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Georgia, the northeast corner of Alabama, and along the Tennessee state line in Chattanooga. Lookout Mountain was the scene of the "Last Battle of the Cherokees" during the Nickajack Expedition, which took place in the 18th century, as well as the November 24, 1863, Battle of Lookout Mountain during the American Civil War.
context_section_description: It was reported that on August 28, 1823, Daniel S. Butrick and William Chamberlain arrived at Lookout Mountain to perform missionary work with Native Americans.  After the Trail of Tears, land taken from the tribes was purchased by the highest bidder without a lottery of land parcels.  This method of distributing land caused much of Lookout Mountain to be owned by a few wealthy Chattanooga families.
  The aptly named Summertown, located on top of the mountain, was barely accessible from a small rutted turnpike which had been built in 1852 by Colonel James A. Whiteside.  Whiteside, a native of Danville, Kentucky, owned a summer home which he converted into a hotel with several cottages. Naturalists who came to the area and visited the summit, such as Bradford Torrey, thought the cottages spoiled the environment and made it look like a cheap resort.  Whiteside had purchased much of the land on the mountain's summit.  Another wealthy Chattanoogan, Robert Cravens, had purchased most of the land on the side of the mountain.  Cravens was also instrumental in developing the area, and moved into the house he built (the Cravens House) in 1855.  Within a few years, about 25 families regularly summered on the mountain.
  Lookout Mountain's Sunset Rock was once the home to the photo shop of JB Linn.  After the Union forces under Major General Joseph Hooker took over the mountain, Linn gained access to Sunset Rock (then called Point Lookout).  He built a small shack there and named it "Gallery Point Lookout".   In December 1863, he and his brother began taking photographs of many war commanders and officers, as well as wealthy civilians in the area.  They became very successful with these pictures. The Gallery Point Lookout House is no longer in existence, but many of Linn's photographs still exist.
caption: Lookout Mountain, as viewed from Signal Mountain, Tennessee.
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