{"nrhp_refnum":"66000274","name":"Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park","other_names":[],"category":"district","location":{"address":"S of Chattanooga on U.S. 27","address_restricted":false,"city":"Fort Oglethorpe","county":"Catoosa County","state":"GA","lat":34.98983371750006,"lon":-85.27518060627807,"geom_source":"nps_gis"},"listed_date":"1966-10-15","is_nhl":false,"nhl_designated_date":null,"areas_of_significance":["Social History","Politics/Government","Military","Landscape Architecture","Conservation","Art","Architecture"],"significance_levels":["national"],"summary":{"what_it_is":"A battlefield park and historic district of about 8,100 acres in northwest Georgia and southeast Tennessee, preserving the Chickamauga battlefield and the Chattanooga battlefields at Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Orchard Knob and Signal Point. Congress established it in 1890 and it was dedicated in 1895.","why_significant":"It preserves the sites of the September 1863 Battle of Chickamauga and the November 1863 Battles for Chattanooga, which opened the way for the Atlanta Campaign. It was also the first American battlefield whose preservation Congress authorized, with veterans of both armies taking part in marking it. The War Department's work there from 1890 to 1933 served as a model for later historic site preservation.","narrative":"Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park covers roughly 8,100 acres across Walker and Catoosa Counties in Georgia and Hamilton County in Tennessee. It protects the ground of two major Civil War battles fought in the autumn of 1863: Chickamauga, where Union forces were driven back and besieged in Chattanooga, and the later fighting at Lookout Mountain, Orchard Knob and Missionary Ridge, where the siege was broken. Chattanooga then served as the base for Sherman's Atlanta campaign. Congress created the park in 1890, the first national legislation to authorize preserving an American battlefield. Veterans of both armies helped place monuments, and more than 700 were eventually erected, along with cannon, roads and observation towers. A few surviving wartime houses, including the Brotherton, Kelly, Snodgrass and Cravens homes, remain. The Chickamauga unit is still largely rural, while the Chattanooga units are surrounded by the city. The park's early preservation work influenced how other battlefields were protected.","period_of_significance":"1863, 1890-1945","architect_builder":null,"architectural_style":"Monuments reflect late nineteenth-century eclecticism, mixing Romanesque Revival and Beaux-Arts classical elements","criteria":[],"status_note":"Condition is marked good and original site. The park is public, open with unrestricted access, and used as a park and museum. The Cravens house on Lookout Mountain is a restored historic house museum.","vacant_flag":false,"machine_generated":true,"model":"claude-sonnet-5-5","prompt_version":"v1.0-2026-10-29","generated_at":"2026-10-29 02:55:40.126844-05","source_pdf":"https://s3.amazonaws.com/NARAprodstorage/lz/electronic-records/rg-079/NPS_GA/66000274.pdf"},"photo":{"url_800":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000274/93ce155e7c-800.webp","url_1600":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/media/66000274/93ce155e7c-1600.webp","licence":"CC BY-SA 3.0","author":"Lhughesw5","credit_html":"<a href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cannon_Row.jpg\" rel=\"noopener\">Lhughesw5</a>, <a href=\"https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0\" rel=\"license noopener\">CC BY-SA 3.0</a>, via Wikimedia Commons","source_page":"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cannon_Row.jpg"},"district":null,"sources":{"nps_snapshot_date":"2026-05-22","nara_catalog":"https://catalog.archives.gov/id/93207251","wikipedia":"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chickamauga_and_Chattanooga_National_Military_Park","wikidata":"https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5096187"},"indexable":true,"url":"https://nationalhistoricalregister.com/georgia/catoosa-county/chickamauga-and-chattanooga-national-military-park-66000274/"}