Chattanooga's Forest Hills Cemetery

Within 20 years of the end of the Civil War, Chattanooga was becoming the �Dynamo of Dixie.� Entrepreneurs and capital from the North were welcomed to the city. New railroads made the area a transportation hub. Fortunes were made in finance, industry, and tourism. Located at the foot of Lookout Mountain, St. Elmo was Chattanooga�s first suburb. The founder of the then-independent town, A. M. Johnson and other community leaders chartered the Forest Hills Cemetery in the late 1870s. Many Chattanooga-area families obtained sites within the cemetery, now on the National Register of Historic Places. A rarity for the Reconstruction South, these families included a number of African Americans. From the famous to the infamous, from the remembered to the nearly forgotten, Images of America: Chattanooga�s Forest Hills Cemetery highlights a number of Chattanoogans interred in this picturesque historic cemetery.