The
History of the
Lookout
Valley
Community
By
Richard
Alexander McKeel
Chapter Eleven
“Annexation/What
is the name of our Community?”
Annexation to the
City of
Chattanooga
In 1976, the mayor of
Chattanooga
decided to annex the
community of
Lookout
Valley
. Mayor Robert Kirk Walker
would find himself in a heated battle in the community. Many in the
Lookout
Valley
community called this the
second battle of Wauhatchie because this would prove a very unpopular decision,
and many people tried their best to block the decision even taken it all the way
to the
Tennessee
state capital, in
Nashville
. However, try as they might
Chattanooga
did annex
Lookout
Valley
in the summer of 1976; the
final judgment to annex was made by a Judge from
Cincinnati
,
Ohio
.
What
is the name of our Community?
Today, if you ask a number of people in
Lookout
Valley
what’s the name of our
community? You man get three names different names of the community. The three
names one would here are
Lookout
Valley
, Tiftonia, and Wauhatchie.
The reason for this is that the area from the
County
Line
to
Browns Ferry Road
was called
Lookout
Valley
. The citizens along
Wauhatchie Pike east to Lookout Mountain and to the Georgia Line would be the
area known as Wauhatchie In the early 1970s, a vote was taken by the people of
the community of Lookout Valley and winner was by a majority of the vote was
Lookout Valley. As a result of this election, the name Tiftonia was officially
removed from the interstate signs. This came about with the help of Councilman
John Lively, then Mayor of Chattanooga, Gene Roberts, then Neighborhood
President, Jerry Walls stated, “that Wauhatchie will stay on the back burner,
because of the strong Native American Culture heritage of the area.”
CHAPTER 10
CHAPTER 12
BIBLIOGRAPHY
Richard Alexander McKeel
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2004
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