Sunday, August 15, 2010

Lookout Mountain Battlefield and Point Park

Next, we drove up Lookout Mountain to Point Park.

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Beautiful entrance....This is where the Battle for Chattanooga took place in 1863.

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A mural in the museum displays the Federal and Confederate armies fight the Civil War for Chattanooga.

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These men portray the soldiers of that time and tell of guns used in this battle.

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Note the guy in the middle, is barefooted....they are marching in the park.

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Rifles used during the war...

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The reenactment was well done. 

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Heading to the visitors center and gift shop....

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Interesting stuff at the shop but I liked these!!

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Manuel and Janet are looking at the stuff here.

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By now, we are hungry and head towards the downtown area to eat.  We saw these clothes all along a fence line.  Interesting art!!!

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Downtown streets are almost empty since it is Sunday.

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We come up to the Pickle Barrel and since it looked so neat, we decided to eat here.  

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This place is very narrow but it has quite a bit of customers.  The people next to us told us that this area used to be a sidewalk.

Hippies came in and added this part and made it a restaurant.

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The restroom and then I took a walk up the stairs on this narrow staircase made of thin iron.

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Looking down at Manuel.

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and the rest of the people...

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The ceiling...

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The brick floor used to be a sidewalk.

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Good place to eat....interesting, too!

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We will now drive a few blocks to the Chattanooga Choo Choo Train Station.

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