Name/Title
Signal Mountain Inn, Four-Fold BrochureEntry/Object ID
2020.062.001Description
A four-fold brochure featuring the Signal Mountain Inn, atop Walden's Ridge in Signal Mountain, and the Chattanooga Traction Company, which operated the electric railway line and service from Chattanooga up the mountain.
There are multiple photographs of the rail line at scenic locations, including Shoal Creek Gorge, Rainbow Falls, Signal Point Road, Signal Mountain Inn, James Point and Brady Point. There is also a detailed illustration of the "High Power All Steel Electric Cars, Signal Mountain Route"
(Brochure Exterior Blurb) SIGNAL MOUNTAIN INN
(Photo caption)" Signal Mountain Inn. Fire Proof Modern Hotel. Elevation 1800 Feet"
"THE beauties of nature furnishes the location and modern architectural skill the adornment necessary to accomplish in its entirety this ideal Fire Proof Hostelry. Located on top of Signal Mountain, 2)00 feet above sea level, with the trolley at its door, this All-Year-Round Hotel, forty minutes by rail or automobile from Chattanooga, offers to the visitors a home complete with the environments of the most exacting. Healthful to a degree unsurpassed in any part w' America, this hotel is destined to become as famous as that of any other resort catering to tt e romancer, the seeker of quiet home life or those vacationists clamoring for scenic surroundings, pure air and healthful waters, away from the noise and bustle of every day life. In easy reach of the hotel is found boating, fishing and hunting, while its roads in every direction, excellent in their construction, furnish to the motorist a pastime amidst scenes historic and enchanting at every turn. The Inn offers popular rates by day and special rates by week or month."
(Brochure Interior Blurb) CHATTANOOGA TRACTION COMPANY
"YOU should not miss a journey to Signal Mountain in the latest type of modern, all steel interurban cars of the Chattanooga Traction Company. The road is equipped with eighty-pound rails, rock ballast and all modern devices for comfort and safety—the most up-to-date electric carline in the South. The cars leave from the heart of the city and climb to a height of 1300 feet above Chattanooga in ten miles.
Rainbow Falls
The scenery from the cars and from Signal Point can-not be surpassed anywhere in this country; with the Tennessee River on one side and the Palisades on the other, the car winds its way to a height of 2000 feet above the sea level with a continual shifting panorama of granduer. On the top of a plateau nine miles wide and forty miles long, in natural forests, with beautiful drives and walks, at the terminus of the road, is located Signal Mountain Inn, a modern All-the-Year Hotel—fire proof; equipped and furnished throughout with all the accessories of comfort and elegance. The cars passing within, a few steps of its doors."Collection
Signal Mountain CollectionRelationships
Related Person or Organization
Person or Organization
Signal Mountain Inn, Chattanooga Traction CompanyRelated Places
Place
* Untyped Place
Signal Mountain, Tennessee, James Point, Walden's Ridge, Brady PointCopyright
Type of License
No Copyright - United States
