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The community was first known as Doe Run. It was incorporated on March 4, 1848, as Tunnelsville, and changed its name in 1856 to Tunnel Hill. Both names refer to the nearby 1,497-foot (456 m) Chetoogeta Mountain Tunnel railroad tunnel cut through Chetoogeta Mountain, officially dedicated on October 31, 1849 by Etowah steel-maker Mark A. Cooper on behalf of the state-owned Western & Atlantic ...
The first tunnel, known as the Western and Atlantic Railroad Tunnel at Tunnel Hill, was completed on May 7, 1850, as part of the construction of the Western & Atlantic Railroad (W & A), the first state road in Georgia. It was the first major railroad tunnel in the South and is 1,447 feet [1] /0.274 miles; 441 meters in
Patton Tunnel/Taswell Tunnel, rail tunnel, 769 feet (234 m) long, [22] Norfolk Southern Railway, under Tunnel Hill Road between Taswell and English in Crawford County Ritner Tunnel / The Big Tunnel , rail tunnel, 1857, 1,731 feet (528 m) long, [ 23 ] CSX railroad under Tunnel Hill, along the East Fork of the White River , east of Tunnelton and ...
May 13, 1970 (10 mi. E of Richmond Hill via GA 67: Richmond Hill: Now a Georgia state historic site website: 5: Glen Echo: Glen Echo: January 9, 1978 (2 miles (3 km) east of Ellabelle on GA 204
Sherman ordered Corse's brigade, with a detachment from Joseph A.J. Lightburn's brigade, to attack along the narrow length of Tunnel Hill. Col. John M. Loomis's brigade, supported by Buschbeck, would move across the open fields on the west of the ridge while Brig. Gen. Giles Alexander Smith's brigade would move through the valley on the east ...
SR 201 south – Tunnel Hill: Northern terminus of SR 201: 24.4: 39.3: SR 71 (Cleveland Highway) – Dalton, Cohutta: Murray 34.8: 56.0: SR 225 south – Calhoun, Chatsworth: West end of SR 225 concurrency 35.9: 57.8: SR 225 north: East end of SR 225 concurrency: Cisco: 38.2: 61.5: US 411 north / SR 61 north – Knoxville: West end of US 411/SR ...
It has a Tunnel Hill postal address and is adjacent to, but not within, the city limits of Varnell. [3] It is a part of the Whitfield County School District. The school colors are royal blue and burnt orange, and the mascot is the Bruin. The school is in Class AAAA of the Georgia High School Association (GHSA).
Tunnel Hill, Georgia: 107 108 Chetoogeta Mountain Tunnel completed May 7, 1850; tunnel dug from both ends, bores met on October 31, 1849; first through passenger train passed through May 7, 1850 15 Ringgold, Georgia: 115 114 Chase ends at 116.4 16 Graysville, Georgia: 121 121 17 Chickamauga, Georgia: 126 126 18 Chattanooga, Tennessee: 138 OWA ...