Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park

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Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
IUCN Category V (Protected Landscape/Seascape)
Location	Catoosa, Dade, & Walker counties, Georgia & Hamilton County, Tennessee, USA
Nearest city	Chattanooga, TN
Coordinates	34°56′24″N 85°15′36″W / 34.94, -85.26
Area	8,119.11 acres   (8,102.32 federal) 32.86 km²
Established	August 19, 1890
Visitors	901,384 (in 2005)
Governing body	National Park Service

Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, located in northern Georgia and eastern Tennessee, preserves the sites of two major battles of the American Civil War.

Contents 1 History 2 Park areas 3 See also 4 References 5 External links

[edit] History

In the 1890s, the Congress of the United States authorized the establishment of the first four national military parks: Chickamauga and Chattanooga, Shiloh, Gettysburg, and Vicksburg. The first and largest of these, and the one upon which the establishment and development of most other national military and historical parks was based, was at Chickamauga, Georgia and Chattanooga, Tennessee. It owes its existence largely to the efforts of Generals Henry V. Boynton and Ferdinand Van Derveer, both veterans of the Union Army of the Cumberland, who saw the need for a federal park to preserve and commemorate these battlefields during a visit to the area in 1888. Another former Union officer, Charles H. Grosvenor, was chairman of the park commission from 1910 until his death in 1917.

[edit] Park areas

The military park consists of four main areas, and a few small isolated reservations, around Chattanooga.

• Chickamauga Battlefield
• Missionary Ridge
• Lookout Mountain and Point Park
• Moccasin Bend

As with all historic areas administered by the National Park Service, the military park was listed on the National Register of Historic Places on October 15, 1966.

On February 20, 2003, Public Law No: 108-7 added Moccasin Bend as a new unit of the park. Moccasin Bend Archaeological District, designated a National Historic Landmark an September 8, 1986, is directly across the Tennessee River from Lookout Mountain. It is significant due to its archaeological resources of American Indian settlement. There are currently no public facilities at Moccasin Bend.

[edit] See also

• Battle of Chickamauga
• First Battle of Chattanooga
• Second Battle of Chattanooga
• Third Battle of Chattanooga

[edit] References

• The National Parks: Index 2001–2003. Washington: U.S. Department of the Interior.

[edit] External links

• Official NPS website: Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park

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