Runners from the region will descend on the Park on Saturday, April 2, to compete in the 37th running of Chattanooga Track Club's annual Chickamauga Chase Road Race. All proceeds will benefit Friends of the Park, as they have for many years. The Friends are grateful for this long-term support from the Track Club and its racers.  read more (478 words)

With 370 members, 35 volunteer Directors and one part-time staff member, Friends of the Park is vital and growing. During 2004, as always, our goal was to support and promote Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park however we could.
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One feature of the 2005 September River Of Time fundraiser was a fun silent auction that kept cruisers bidding on treats such as golf outings, Civil War and sports memorabilia, spa services and more. One auction donor in particular generously and creatively turned his avocation into a money raiser for Friends of the Park.   read more (231 words)

Looking for exciting things to explore in the natural wonderland around Chattanooga? Check out http://www.outdoorchattanooga.com and click on "Explore/Hiking." Here's one of the options you will see:  read more (327 words)

Friends of the Park presented 3rd District Congressman Zach Wamp with their 2004 Drew Haskins, Jr., Award of Merit during the group’s annual meeting aboard the Southern Belle riverboat on Thursday evening, September 30. The award honors a community member each year for outstanding service to Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park and its ideals of preservation, peace and unity.   read more (554 words)

In the 1930s and ‘40s, the Tennessee Valley Authority pioneered the way to providing electricity and sorely needed flood control for many parts of the Southeastern United States. Today, TVA’s Retirees Association is pioneering something brand new: an Adopt-A-Monument Program for Chickamauga & Chattanooga National Military Park.  read more (221 words)

Point Park was the setting recently for the climax of what has been described as a century of effort toward the preservation and protection of Moccasin Bend, a historic Tennessee River peninsula in Chattanooga.
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Up for a fall cruise, Friends? Plan now to join your fellow members on Thursday evening, September 30, 2004, from 6:30 until 9:30 for an evening of fun, fellowship, thrills and edification during River of Time: Cruising the Tennessee Yesterday & Today.   read more (299 words)

Join the Friends for their second and final special interest bus tour of 2004: 'Hood Raids The Rails,' a fascinating Civil War experience exploring the North Georgia of 1864!  read more (224 words)

A dentist by profession and living historian by avocation, longtime Friend Anthony Hodges participated in burial ceremonies for the crew of the H.L Hunley on April 17, 2004. He provides us with the following reflection on his experience:  read more (493 words)