{"id":2327,"date":"2012-05-31T10:24:11","date_gmt":"2012-05-31T10:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/?p=2327"},"modified":"2013-09-13T18:26:53","modified_gmt":"2013-09-13T18:26:53","slug":"of-rail-lines-and-other-things","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2012\/05\/31\/of-rail-lines-and-other-things\/","title":{"rendered":"Of Rail Lines and Other Things"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week in the Special Collections, I had an interesting question about the historic landscape of the university.\u00a0 The question was related to some fragments of <strong>old steel railroad tracks<\/strong> that can be found in what amounts to a drainage ditch in between the Fine Arts building and the library parking garage.\u00a0 These remnants would seem to indicate that a rail line once ran through the area, but finding pictorial proof can often prove challenging.<\/p>\n<p>Upon consulting a poster produced as a supplement (March 23, 1887) to the <a href=\"http:\/\/chroniclingamerica.loc.gov\/lccn\/sn85038530\/\">Chattanooga Daily Times<\/a> (which ran from 1875-1965) ,\u00a0 the rail line&#8217;s existence was confirmed.\u00a0 Viewed on the image below, the rail line ran from the rail yard, located at the top of the map, down through what is now our university&#8217;s campus.\u00a0 I believe it is also interesting to see the original footprint of our university in it&#8217;s infancy compared with our current footprint.\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.library.utc.edu\/cdm\/singleitem\/collection\/p15369coll1\/id\/259\/rec\/1\">Old Main<\/a>, the university&#8217;s first building, was erected during the first incarnation of the university (called Chattanooga University-circled in red on the map) and occupied a portion of the space that Hooper-Race now covers.\u00a0 To be more specific, Hooper-Race was actually built <em>around<\/em> Old Main before the building was torn down.<\/p>\n<p>The green box in the image below represents (very roughly) the current footprint of the university.\u00a0 You might recognize most of Baldwin Street in its current state as &#8220;<strong>Cardiac Hill<\/strong>&#8220;.\u00a0 Palmetto Street now extends out to 3rd Street and residential areas took up the bulk of what would later become UTC.\u00a0 A final interesting tidbit on the map (unrelated to UTC), is<strong> Old Fort Wood<\/strong> (see purple arrow) which was a large stronghold constructed by Union forces in 1863 during their occupation of Chattanooga.\u00a0 The fort was dismantled in 1888 and the area became a residential neighborhood we now know as Fort Wood.<\/p>\n<p><em>click on the image to enlarge<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/files\/2013\/09\/special-collections-old-chatt-map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-large wp-image-2328\" title=\"Map of Old Chattanooga\" alt=\"Map of Old Chattanooga\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.utc.edu\/archivist\/files\/2012\/05\/OldChattMap-1024x1005.jpg\" width=\"500\" height=\"490\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week in the Special Collections, I had an interesting question about the historic landscape of the university.\u00a0 The question was related to some fragments of old steel railroad tracks that can be found in what amounts to a drainage ditch in between the Fine Arts building and the library parking garage.\u00a0 These remnants would&hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link-wrap\"><span><a class=\"more-link button text\" href=\"https:\/\/blogarchive.utc.edu\/library\/2012\/05\/31\/of-rail-lines-and-other-things\/\"><span>Continue Reading <\/span><\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":414,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4922],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2327","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-special-collections","7":"entry"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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