1892 Map of Ringgold

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Lookout Mountain and the prominent Peavine Ridge dominate this late nineteenth-century survey of the Georgia-Tennessee borderlands. The landscape is defined by the strategic rail corridors of the Western and Atlantic Railroad and the Alabama Great Southern Railroad, which facilitated the movement of goods and people through the narrow gaps of the Appalachian foothills. This era shows the region shortly after the establishment of the National Park at Chickamauga, marking the early preservation of one of the Civil War's most significant battlegrounds.