YA GOTTA SEE CHATA “NEW" GA

YA GOTTA SEE CHATA “NEW" GA

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Chattanooga, Tennessee - Whoa Nellie!

While you might be familiar with the Tennessee Aquarium and the Chattanooga Choo Choo, here are a few interesting facts about the South’s Scenic City, Chattanooga.

• Chattanooga has the world’s steepest passenger railway line - The Lookout Mountain Incline Railway.

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• Chattanooga has the world’s longest pedestrian bridge - The Walnut Street Bridge.

• Chattanooga has the nation’s first and largest military park - Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park.

• Chattanooga has the world’s largest freshwater aquarium - The Tennessee Aquarium.

• Chattanooga has the South’s largest collection of American art - The Hunter Museum of Art.

• The Glenn Miller Orchestra won the first gold record awarded by the music industry for a song about Chattanooga - The Chattanooga Choo Choo.

• The world’s first franchised Coca-Cola bottling plant was built in Chattanooga by two local attorneys who bought the franchise bottling rights for $1 each.

• More than 300 kinds of trees and 900 varieties of wildflowers grow in the Chattanooga area, more than anywhere on earth, except central China.

• Miniature golf was invented in 1926 on Lookout Mountain by Rock City Gardens founder Garnet Carter.

• The Chattanooga Choo Choo/Holiday Inn’s lobby, a former railroad terminal, contains the largest freestanding brick dome in the world. The interior height of the dome is 85 feet.

• A Chattanooga manufacturer was the first commercial maker of nylon hose in the 1939 ˜ Davenport Hosiery Mills.
• Chattanooga has Tennessee’s largest mall - Hamilton Place.

• The Lookout Mountain Flight Park and Training School graduates more pilots annually than any other school in the world.

• The highest overland bungee cord jump in the world is at Chattanooga’s High Adventure Sports. They also hold the record for the oldest person to ever take a jump.

• The deepest commercial caverns in the United States are located on Lookout Mountain and are over 1,000 feet underground - Ruby Falls.

For more information about Chattanooga contact:
Chattanooga Area Convention & Visitors Bureau
2 Broad Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402
Phone: 423/424-4430
www.chattanewgafun.com