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Dixie Rising Presents
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Next Week is Chattanooga!!Friday October 5, the League of the South will convene its two-day National Conference at the Chattanooga Convention Center.
Following the War of Northern Aggression, development on Lookout Mountain was minimal. The four-hour trip up Whiteside Pike, a toll road, discouraged many people, and the two-dollar toll discouraged the rest. However, many people were interested at visiting the peak, in part due to the romanticized "Battle Above the Clouds" that occurred on the mountain during The War.
During the railroad boom of the 1880's, speculators decided to develop a hotel on the mountaintop serviced by a narrow gauge railroad that would run up the mountain. A second, broad-gauge line and an earlier incline also competed for passengers.
On November 16, 1895 the railroad known today simply as "The Incline" opened, rising up the steepest part of Lookout Mountain. Built by John Crass and the Lookout Mountain Incline Railway Company this technical marvel boasted an incline of 72.7% at one point, making it the steepest passenger Incline in the world. Literally millions of residents and tourists have taken this ride up to the top of Lookout Mountain. By 1900 the success of this railway closed down all of its competitors.
Originally the cars were made of wood and powered by huge coal-burning steam engines. Electric power was used after 1911, and it now uses two 100 horsepower motors. Today The Incline Railway still attracts people from around the world.
Chattanooga also offers great historical site-seeing with the 8,000 acre Chickamauga-Chattanooga Military Park as well as the “Battle Above the Clouds” park on Lookout Mountain. It also is home to the largest fresh-water aquarium in the world. The ten-story high Tennessee Aquarium is located just blocks away from the Convention Center. Other fun-times for the family are Rock City, Ruby Falls, the Hunter Museum, the Southern Belle Riverboat, and Coolidge Park.
Workshop topics, as well as additional speakers, will be announced later this summer. Registration is $50 per individual, $75 husband and wife, and $100 per family. Payment should be made to:
We encourage early registration in order that we might determine how many attendees to expect for the conference. Please include names of everyone in your party so we can assure they have a name tag. You don’t want to miss this conference. In addition to the speakers announced above, we plan on having a few surprises in store for our attendees. Also, the 2007 League conference comes hard on the heels of the Second North American Secession Convention (3-4 October) in Chattanooga. Thus, the atmosphere ought to be electric. Please mark you calendar and make plans to join us in Chattanooga for this exciting gathering of Southern nationalists. For more information, contact League President Michael Hill at (800) 888-3163 or by e-mail at jmichhill@cs.com. Also, please log onto our website at www.dixienet.org for updates on the conference.
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