Chattanooga Community Guide
Chattanooga is called the Scenic City thanks to the charming downtown and scenic landscape that surrounds the area. Home to dozens of parks, public art works, museums, theaters and unique neighborhood areas as well as the “world’s fastest internet,“ Chattanooga has much to offer just about everyone.
Check out Chattanooga Property Shop’s Community Guides to these Chattanooga-area communities:
- Downtown Chattanooga
- North Chattanooga
- Ooltewah
- Red Bank
- Ringgold
- Signal Mountain
- Soddy Daisy
- Golf Communities
- Homes with Views
- Farms
- Waterfront Homes
Chattanooga Fun Facts:
- Chattanooga was the first American city to have its own typeface, Chatype, which was the first custom-made typeface that was crowdfunded and used for any municipality in the world
- Chattanooga’s historic Tivoli Theatre was one of the first public air-conditioned buildings in the United States
- Chattanooga has many unofficial nicknames such as River City, Chatt, Nooga, Chattown and Gig City
- In 1839, the community of Ross’s Landing incorporated as the city of Chattanooga and quickly became known as the place “where cotton meets corn,” referring to its location between the communities of Southern Appalachia and the cotton-growing states
- The Chattanooga Symphony and Opera (CSO) was the first merged symphony and opera company in the United States in 1985
- The Walnut Street Bridge, also known as “The Walking Bridge” is one of the world’s longest pedestrian bridges at 2,376 feet
- The first gold record awarded in the music industry was for The Glen Miller Orchestra’s number one hit The Chattanooga Choo Choo, which was #1 on the Billboard Charts for nine weeks and sold over a million copies
- Usher, Samuel L. Jackson, Bessie Smith, Leslie Jordan, Terrell Owens, Peyton Manning and many other well-known individuals call Chattanooga home
- The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway is one of the world’s steepest passenger railways at a 72.7% grade
- There is more rock within a 25-mile radius of Chattanooga than Boulder, Colorado, making the Scenic City a hiker’s dreamland
- MoonPies were created at The Chattanooga Bakery and have been produced in the Scenic City since 1917
- The first tow trucks were crafted in the Scenic City in 1913
- Lookout Mountain’s Ruby Falls, located more than 1,000 feet underground, are the deepest commercial caverns in the country
- Two local attorneys built the first franchised Coca-Cola bottling plant in Chattanooga after buying the franchise bottling rights for $1 each
- Chattanooga’s Tennessee Valley Railroad Museum is the largest historic operating railroad in the south
- The Chattanooga Times Free Press is the only newspaper in the country with two editorial pages that reflect opposite political views – The Times’ liberal editorial page on the left and the Free Press’ conservative editorial page on the right
- The lobby of the Chattanooga Choo Choo, a historic railroad terminal turned hotel, is home to the largest freestanding brick dome in the world with an interior height of 85 feet
- Scenes from many movies have been filmed in Chattanooga, such as Fool’s Parade, Eleanor & Franklin, The Man Trail, The Night the Lights Went Out in Georgia, The Big Blue, Dutch, Christopher Columbus: The Discovery, All Over Again, The Last Days of Frank and Jesse James, Fled, Straight into Darkness, Mama Flora’s Family, October Sky, The Adventures of Ociee Nash, Warm Springs, Heaven’s Fall, Leatherheads, Water for Elephants, and 42
