Please add profiles of those who were born, lived or died in Catoosa County, Georgia. Official Website The county was created on December 5, 1853. The meaning of the Cherokee language name "Catoosa" is obscure. The Battle of Ringgold Gap was fought November 27, 1863, in northwest Georgia during the Chattanooga Campaign of the American Civil War. The Confederate victory by Maj. Gen. Patrick C...
Annex across the street from Anderson Cemetery. Separately owned and operated with its own entrance. Opened in the 1970s, this perpetual care cemetery is owned by the Anderson-Catoosa Memorial Gardens & Monument Co. It is adjacent to, but not the same as, the historic Nathan Anderson Cemetery . You may want to check both cemeteries, as memorials may have been inadvertently posted to the wrong ...
One of Ringgold’s oldest cemeteries, the Nathan Anderson Cemetery on Lafayette Street near Georgia Highway 151 is accessible from downtown along the LaFayette Street sidewalk. Many of the communities earliest and most notable citizens were laid to rest at the site. Some authorities speculate that the cemetery location actually dates back to the days of the Native American mound builders. It’s m...
Wikipedia =Great Locomotive Chase=The Great Locomotive Chase or Andrews' Raid was a military raid that occurred April 12, 1862, in northern Georgia during the American Civil War. Volunteers from the Union Army, led by civilian scout James J. Andrews, commandeered a train and took it northward toward Chattanooga, Tennessee, doing as much damage as possible to the vital Western and Atlantic Railr...