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Just a short drive from Chattanooga, is the Lost Sea , a four-acre subterranean lake, or take a trip south to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park , the site of the Civil War's longest battle. Tennessee Aquarium In Coolidge Park on the riverfront, ride the 100-year-old carousel with hand-carved horses.
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It has been averred that but for the saltpeter furnished by the Mammoth Cave of Kentucky and by some smaller limestone caverns, the United States would have been unable successfully to wage the war of 1812. Even during the civil war these cave supplies of saltpeter were largely utilized for making gunpowder.
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From his courtyard, the late summer blooms already closing their delicate petals for the night, Jurist Xi San could see a pillar of smoke rising to the northwest of the city, sign of some distant fire past Kunming Lake.
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Legends have it that other caverns still contain hidden caches of treasure left behind by everyone from the Spaniards, once rumored to have been in the area, to Civil War era payrolls hidden in subterranean depositories, safe from the hands of enemy forces.
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; Civil War Gold And ; Other Lost Treasures;; From Charleston Voice; CV@knology.net ... This treasure section excerpted from "Civil War Gold & Other Lost Treasures" by W. Craig Gaines. The really big lost treasure is that of the Confederate Treasury in custody of Jeff Davis upon leaving Richmond, fleeing the Yankee hordes.
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The discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill in Coloma on the banks of the American River in 1848 changed the course of history (giving California quick entrée into the United States, helping the Union defeat the Confederacy during the Civil War with its gold reserves, and creating a population that has been in the forefront...
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