Lookout Inn, Lookout Mountain, from Where Seven States Can Be Seen

Photograph

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Picnooga

2022.025.002 Recto: Black and white stereographic image of the Lookout Inn
2022.025.002 Recto

Black and white stereographic image of the Lookout Inn

Name/Title

Lookout Inn, Lookout Mountain, from Where Seven States Can Be Seen

Entry/Object ID

2022.025.002

Description

A black and white photographic Stereoview of the Lookout Inn. The photograph shows the elaborate hotel with its tower at center. The hotel is shown in the background of the view, atop a hill. In the foreground, a surrey with fringe on top, led by two dark horses, is stopped in front of a small shack. There are two men sitting in the carriage, one in the front and one in the back with a third man standing beside the carriage holding the reins of the horse. The stereograph is titled "6923-Lookout Inn, Lookout Mountain, from Where Seven States Can Be Seen, Tennessee, U.S.A." at the bottom right of the card. "Keystone View Company, Manufacturers, Copyrighted Made in U.S.A., Publisher" is printed on left gutter and "Meadville, Pa., New York, N.Y. Portland, Oregon, London, Eng., Sydney, Aus." on the right gutter. The card is also numbered 114 at the top, center. The rear reads "114-(6923) Lookout Inn, Lookout Mountain, Tenn. Lat. 35 N.; Long. 85 W. On the top of Lookout Mountain, 2 1/2 miles from Chattanooga (chat' a-noo ga), stands the inn you see here. From the round tower on its top can be seen 7 states. About the foot of the mountain the Tennessee River makes a sharp, double curve. Eastward, far away, on a clear day, you can see the mountains of Virginia and of North and South Carolina. Southward lie Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi. Northward are the green hills of Kentucky. But Lookout Mountain is famed for something more than its scenery. It is one of the great battle grounds of our country. You recall that in the Civil War the Union soldiers succeeded first in defeating the Confederates in the West. The "West" mean the section about the Mississippi River. New Orleans was first captured. Then the gun-boats of the Union armies worked their way northward up the river. General Grant defeated the Southern soldiers in two important battles in Kentucky; then the Union armies worked their way southward. In the fall of 863 the Confederates took up strong position on the mountains about Chattanooga. Grant and Sherman, with their armies, undertook to dislodge them. Their armies numbered about 60,000 men. General Bragg, the Southern commander, had about 40,000 men. On November 23, 24, and 25 the great battle was fought. Up the sides of the mountain swarmed the blue uniforms. So high did they have to climb that the clouds shut them from the view of those remaining below. The battle was fierce but short, one the Unionists gained the top of the slope. The Confederates retreated pell-mell down the opposite side of the mountain. Describe the battle of Lookout Mountain. Copyright by The Keystone View Company."

Photograph Details

Type of Photograph

Stereograph

Subject Person or Organization

Lookout Inn

Subject Place

* Untyped Subject Place

Lookout Mountain, Tennessee

Collection

Lookout Mountain Collection

Made/Created

Studio

Keystone View Company

Date made

circa 1895

Time Period

19th Century

Copyright

Restrictions

Credit Chattanooga Historical Society Reproduction permitted for non-profit educational and research purposes only