CHATTANOOGA 
Chattanooga, the A. A. C. S. con- 
vention city, with its historic battle- 
field cemeteries and its majestic 
mountain scenery offers a variety of 
attractions for the information, in- 
spiration, and entertainment of the 
cemetery superintendents that can be 
found nowhere else in America. The 
improvement of the National Military 
Parks that mark the battle-grounds of 
Chickamauga, Missionary Ridge, 
Rossville Gap and Lookout Mountain, 
carried out by the Government, offers 
rare opportunit}^ for a field study in 
big works of landscape engineering, 
and in the problems of making the 
natural wonders of mountain scenery 
accessible and useful to the public. 
The attractions of the city and its en- 
virons are so many and varied that 
it is possible to do little more than 
enumerate them, and illustrate a few 
e.xamples of nature’s handiwork. 
There is no little historic interest at- 
tached to the cemeteries of Chatta- 
nooga proper. There are seven bur- 
ial grounds, north, east and south of 
the city, that show conditions varying 
from the old ante-bellum “graveyard” 
to the modern lawn cemetery. 
The Citizens’, the Confederate, and 
the Jewish cemeteries, with only a 
hedge and stone wall between, are sit- 
uated within the city’s bounds on East 
Fourth street. The National ceme- 
tery, where the nation buries its sol- 
diers, is also within the city limits. 
Mt. Olivet, the Catholic cemetery, is 
situated to the east of the city, just 
over Mission ridge. Forest Hills cem- 
etery covers a tract of about 125 
acres, to the south of Chattanooga, in 
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St. Elmo, at the foot of historic 
Lookout mountain. White Oak ceme- 
tery, to the north, across the Tennes- 
see river, at the foot of Walden’s 
ridge, completes the list of cemeteries 
in and adjacent to the city. 
The Citizens’ cemetery, covering 
ten acres of ground, is the oldest 
burying place of the seven. This tract 
of land was set apart and used for 
burial purposes prior to 1837. There 
is no deed on record of this property 
as a cemetery. Oldest inhabitants of 
the city say that property owned as 
far back as thej^ remember recognized 
the tract as a cemetery. Among the 
oldest graves to be found in the cem- 
etery is that of Lucius Polk IMont- 
gomery, born in 1835, and buried in 
1837. John Robert Farmer, son of J. 
K. Farmer, was buried in 1839. The 
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SUNSET ROCK. LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN. 
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LULA FALLS, ON LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN DRIVE. 
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