Chattanooga, capital of Hamilton county, Tennessee, a shipping centre on the Tennessee River, 151 miles SE. of Nashville, with good railway connections. The town has cotton and other manufactures, ironworks, tanneries, and sawmills. There was much fighting near here early in the civil war. Pop. (1870) 6093; (1890) 29,100.
Chattanooga
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 3: Catarrh to Dion, p. 135
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