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Center For Historic Preservation

The Caffey-House in Rutherford County is a Tennessee Century Farm that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places by the Center for Historic Preservation.

Center for Popular Music

The Center for Popular Music was established at Middle Tennessee State University in 1985. Its mission is to foster research and scholarship in American popular music and to promote an awareness of and appreciation for America's diverse musical culture. The…

Center for Southern Folklore

The Center for Southern Folklore, located in Memphis, is a nonprofit corporation dedicated to documenting and presenting the people and traditions of the South. Through films, video tapes, records, books, exhibits, and festivals, the center presents the life of indigenous…

Central Parking Coorporation

By the end of the twentieth century, many Tennesseans were used to seeing the Central Parking logo hanging about urban parking lots; few realized it was the largest parking company in the world. It was originally founded as a side…

Chamberlain, Hiram Sanborn

Hiram S. Chamberlain, a founder of the modern iron industry in the South, was born in Franklin, Ohio, on August 6, 1835, to Vermont natives Leander and Susanna Chamberlain. The fourth of eight children, Chamberlain attended the Eclectic Institute (later…

Charles S. Johnson

Charles S. Johnson.

Charles W. Dabney Jr.

Dabney Hall at the University of Tennessee.

Chattanooga

The Walnut Street Bridge in Chattanooga.

Chattanooga

Tennessee's fourth largest city, Chattanooga enjoys a rich and often contentious past. The city lies on a bend in the Tennessee River near a natural opening in the southern Appalachians. Surrounded by mountains and ridges, the river's banks formed a…

Chattanooga Bakery Company

Founded in 1903, Chattanooga Bakery Company is best known for the production of a single product--Moon Pies. The company began operations as an attempt at vertical integration by Chattanooga's Mountain City Flour Mill in an attempt to take advantage of…

Chattanooga Blade

The city's leading African American newspaper in the late 1800s, the Chattanooga Blade was recognized for its rare quality as a publication edited and produced by African Americans. The Blade was published weekly by Randolph Miller, one of the few…

Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel

This landmark Chattanooga hotel located on Market Street in downtown Chattanooga initially served as the Southern Railway Terminal. Designed by Beaux-Arts-trained architect Donn Barber of New York City, this magnificent architectural gateway to the Deep South opened during the Christmas…

Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel

In 1973, the Southern Railway Terminal was reopened as the Chattanooga Choo-Choo Hotel.

Chattanooga Glass Company

This significant Chattanooga business was founded in 1901 by Charles Rief to provide glass bottles for his brewery. Soon the company also began producing bottles for the infant Coca-Cola bottling industry, established in the city in 1899. With the advent…

Chattanooga Medicine Company

In 1879 Chattanooga businessman Zeboim Cartter Patten and a group of friends established the Chattanooga Medicine Company. Its first two products, Black-Draught and Wine of Cardui, were so successful that they were sold well into the twentieth century. Patten procured…

Chattanooga Plow Company

The Chattanooga Plow Company was once the largest factory in Chattanooga and an international leader in plow design and production. The company dates to the business activities of Newell Sanders, who arrived in Chattanooga in 1877 from Bloomington, Indiana, where…

Chattanooga Slideshow

Chattanooga Slideshow

Chattanooga Times

In a lavishly paneled executive board room on the fourteenth floor of the New York Times Building on West Forty-third Street in Manhattan, the home of the nation's most influential daily newspaper, stands a bust of Adolph S. Ochs, the…

Chattanooga Times

Adolph S. Ochs was publisher of the Chattanooga Times from 1878 until his death in 1935.

Chattanooga Times Free Press

The Chattanooga News-Free Press building in 1941.

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