Chattanooga, Tennessee
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| Nickname : Scenic City (official), River City | |
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| Location in Tennessee | |
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | 1816 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Tennessee |
| Counties : |
Hamilton County Marion County |
| Coordinates : | 35 ° 2 ′ N , 85 ° 18 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Eastern ( UTC − 5 / −4 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
177,571 (as of 2016) 551,632 (as of 2016) |
| Population density : | 504.2 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 370.8 km 2 (approx. 143 mi 2 ) of which 352.2 km 2 (approx. 136 mi 2 ) is land |
| Height : | 206 m |
| Postcodes : | 37401-37450 |
| Area code : | +1 423 |
| FIPS : | 47-14000 |
| GNIS ID : | 1307240 |
| Website : | www.chattanooga.gov |
| Mayor : | Andy Berke |
 Hamilton County Courthouse in Chattanooga |
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With around 178,000 inhabitants, Chattanooga is the fourth largest city in the US state of Tennessee . It is located in the southeast of the state on the banks of the Tennessee River near the Georgia border and is the center of the metropolitan area of Chattanooga .
Population development
| year | Residents¹ |
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| 1980 | 169,514 |
| 1990 | 152.466 |
| 2000 | 156.472 |
| 2010 | 170.324 |
| 2016 | 177,571 |
¹ 1980–2010: census results; 2016: US Census Bureau estimate
history
The town was founded in 1816 by Chief John Ross under the name Ross's Landing as a center of trade with the Cherokee Indians. In 1838 the city was renamed Chattanooga after the forcible resettlement of the Cherokee (see Trail of Tears ), probably after the name of a rocky outcrop on nearby Lookout Mountain .
Major battles took place near Chattanooga during the American Civil War . The Battle of Chickamauga was about 20 km southwest on 19./20. Fought September 1863, the Battle of Chattanooga in and around the city followed from November 23 to 25, 1863.
Chattanooga became an important industrial location in the 20th century, which resulted in massive environmental pollution. In the 1960s, according to Walter Cronkite , the city was "the dirtiest city in America". It is now largely free of industrial pollution.
Culture and sights
The historic Walnut Street Bridge is in Chattanooga . Constructed from 1889 to 1891, the bridge is on Walnut Street and spans the Tennessee River . It was listed on February 23, 1990 by the National Register of Historic Places as a historic monument with the number 90000300.
music
The swing piece Chattanooga Choo Choo , recorded by Glenn Miller in 1941 , tells the story of a steam train ride from New York City to Chattanooga. The title sold more than a million times in the year it was published. On February 10, 1942, a gold record was awarded for the first time in music history .
The annual Riverbend Festival is one of the three largest open air events in the United States.
Sports
Since 2014, a long-distance triathlon (3.86 km swimming, 180.2 km cycling and 42.195 km running) has been held here every July with the Ironman Chattanooga .
Economy and Transport
Three major highways ( Interstate Highways ) intersect in Chattanooga . But not only car traffic is an important economic factor in the city, but for a long time Chattanooga has been of particular importance as a railway junction in the region with the distribution function to the north, west and south. However, passenger traffic was completely discontinued and the historic railway station, built in 1909 in Victorian style and closed in 1970, was converted into a hotel complex with the old passenger cars. The actual station building serves as a lobby and restaurant, hotel guests spend the night in the modernly equipped railroad cars.
The local businesses are a mix of manufacturing and service companies, and there are three colleges and the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga . In addition to the converted train station, the city's biggest tourist attractions include the Tennessee Aquarium , one of the largest freshwater aquariums in the world, and the restored city center. The also restored Walnut Street Bridge is one of the largest pedestrian bridges in the world.
As the Board of Management of Volkswagen AG announced on July 15, 2008 , the first new US plant with an annual capacity of 150,000 cars will be built in Chattanooga in the Enterprise South Industrial Park , around 17 km east of the city center . To this end, the group invested around one billion dollars in the location. It has its own freight yard for the delivery of materials and loading of the finished vehicles. The site management, the water supply and the reforestation on the former forest site are considered exemplary. The first vehicles - a larger US version of the VW Passat model - rolled off the assembly line for the opening of the plant on May 24, 2011. In 2017, the VW plant employed 2100 people.
The German technology group Voith operates a plant of the Voith Hydro Inc.
Town twinning
Chattanooga names seven cities as sister cities:
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sons and daughters of the town
- Nathan L. Bachman (1878-1937), politician
- Phelan Beale (1881–1956), lawyer and uncle of Jacqueline Onassis (1929–1994)
- Lovie Austin (1887–1972), blues and jazz pianist, arranger and composer
- Bessie Smith (1894-1937), blues singer
- Charlie Lewis (* 1903), jazz pianist
- Grady Sutton (1906-1995), actor
- George W. Wheland (1907–1962), chemist
- Yusef Lateef (1920–2013), jazz musician
- David M. Abshire (1926-2014), politician
- Bill McKinney (1931-2011), actor
- Norman Blake (born 1938), country musician
- Ishmael Reed (* 1938), writer
- Clyde Stubblefield (1943-2017), drummer
- John Piper (* 1946), Baptist pastor, professor and author
- George S. Clinton (* 1947), film composer
- Roscoe Tanner (born 1951), tennis player
- Leslie Jordan (born 1955), actor
- Tamara Jernigan (* 1959), NASA astronaut
- Terry Gordy (1961-2001), wrestler
- Mark Taylor (* 1961), jazz French horn player
- Reggie White (1961-2004), football player
- Lori Petty (born 1963), actress
- Ralphie May (1972-2017), comedian and actor
- Usher Raymond (born 1978), singer
- Ryan Martin (born 1993), boxer
- Reggie Upshaw (born 1995), basketball player
Climate table
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Monthly average temperatures and rainfall for Chattanooga, Tennessee
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Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ NRIS
- ↑ Riverbend Festival
- ^ Spiegel Online article on the VW general meeting. May 3, 2011, accessed May 3, 2011 .
- ↑ Press release from the Chattanooga Area Chamber of Commerce. (No longer available online.) July 15, 2008, archived from the original on July 20, 2008 ; Retrieved July 16, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Press release from Volkswagen AG. (No longer available online.) July 15, 2008, archived from the original on October 4, 2013 ; Retrieved July 16, 2008 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Max Hägler: Trumps Auto-Welt, in: Süddeutsche Zeitung No. 121, 27./28. May 2017, p. 27.
- ^ Chattanooga Sister Cities Association , accessed March 17, 2018
