Name/Title
Ferger Place, Hickory Street, ChattanoogaEntry/Object ID
2020.240.001Description
A postcard with the front showing a color-tinted photograph of Hickory Street in the Ferger Place neighborhood of Chattanooga, Tennessee. The postcard shows the street looking towards the gate with houses on either side and children on the sidewalk.
Ferger Place was established in 1910 as the first exclusively "White-Only" gated community in the South by two brothers, J. Fred Ferger and J. Herman Ferber. The deeds for the original houses were restricted by race (and are available at the Hamilton County Register of Deeds office), saying "That none of said real estate ... shall at any time within ninety-nine years from the date of this deed, be sold, transferred, conveyed, leased, or rented … to any negro or person of color."
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Ferger Place Historic DistrictCollection
Chattanooga Neighborhood CollectionPostcard Details
Date Published
circa 1912Place Printed
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GermanyRelationships
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Place
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Morningside Drive, Chattanooga, Tennessee*Copyright
Type of License
No Copyright - United StatesRestrictions
Credit Chattanooga Historical Society
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