Name/Title
Signal Mountain HotelEntry/Object ID
2020.572.001Description
A Nine-fold brochure for the Signal Mountain Hotel (Inn) from the mid-1910s.
The front features a yellow border with pine bough and pine comb graphics. The top front reads "SIGNAL MOUNTAIN HOTEL
Signal Mountain, Near Chattanooga"
above a graphic of the Signal Mountain Hotel with a trolley car in the foreground. Below the image reads "ABSOLUTELY FIREPROOF, ELEVATION 2000 FEET, 250 ROOMS 200 WITH PRIVATE BATH, H. M. STANFORD, Manager, Take Cars at Market St Ninth Sts. Marked "Signal Mt. Route"
The rear of the brochure, when folded, has two photographs of golfers on the country club golf course. The top photo features two women watching a man tee off and the bottom photos show four golfers on the course. The photos are labeled "On the Links Signal Mt. Country Club". A stamp, in blue ink, reads "The Ask Mr. Foster Travel Information Services, 503-14th St., N.W., Washington, D.C."
The exterior folds read "See America First" is a popular patriotic saying that means much to the American people at this time; and to this we add See Chattanooga, also, with her historical battlefields, unsurpassed mountain scenery and healthful, equable, all-the-year climate. A brief study of a railroad map will disclose the fact that Chattanooga is only one night's ride from New York City, Philadelphia, Washington, Cleveland, Detroit, Chicago, St. Louis, New Orleans, Mobile, Jacksonville and Savannah, and without change of sleeper.
Among the many beautiful and remarkable settings of Nature that surround Chattanooga, SIGNAL MOUNTAIN is the premier in every respect, and its accessibility affords the Tourist or Pleasure Seeker or Home Seeker advantages unsurpassed anywhere. Signal Mountain is the Southern spur of the Cumberland Range, terminating in Signal Point, overlooking Chattanooga, and at its base, 1,400 feet below Signal Mountain Hotel, is the Grand Canyon of the Tennessee, the picturesque Gorge through which the majestic river flows from the Chattanooga Valley to its junction with the Ohio near Paducah, Kentucky.
The interior folds read "The elevation of Signal Mountain is 2,000 feet and its climate is moderate all the year and free from smoke, malaria and mosquitoes. From its bold headlands—Wilder, James, Brady and Signal Points—the views of the Great Smoky Mountains of North Carolina, the high hills of Georgia and Alabama, the beautiful Tennessee Valley with Lookout Mountain ever as a centerpiece, are grand, inspiring and never to be forgotten. The distance from Chattanooga is covered easily in forty minutes by the all Steel Electric Cars of the Chattanooga Traction Company, or by a modern auto road of easy grades. The views along each route are a constant shifting panorama of beauty and wonder, with the winding Tennessee River almost constantly in view. On the summit of Signal Mountain and a short distance from Signal Point the Mountain Land Company has erected a modern fire proof ALL THE YEAR ROUND HOTEL surrounded with all that appeals to and satisfies the wonder and comfort of the traveler. Here, girdled by primeval forest trees, and in season by gorgeous flowers and shrubbery, with cement walks, improved roads, and handsome homes, the pleasure and health seeker and home seeker finds a real haven of rest and enjoyment. Pure Freestone, Chalybeate and Epsomia water add to the healthful character of the community. The hotel has 250 rooms, 200 with private baths, and summer cottages. A magnificent Golf Course of 18 holes has just been completed, one of the most unique in the world, covering one hundred and twenty acres and possessing features not usually found on golf courses. Rainbow Lake, formed by building a concrete dam across one of the main mountain streams, furnishes a bathing and boating course 1,000 feet long by 200 feet wide at an average depth of 15 feet, that is at once a thing of beauty and pleasure surrounded by every detail of mountain wildness. Come to Chattanooga and Signal Mountain and verify all we have herein told you. All Railroads give stop-overs in Chattanooga."Collection
Signal Mountain CollectionPublication Details
Publication Type
BrochureDate Published
circa 1914 - circa 1920Relationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Signal Mountain InnRelated Places
Place
* Untyped Place
Signal Mountain, Tennessee, Signal Mountain InnCopyright
Type of License
No Copyright - United States
