Did y'all know?.....................

           Catoosa county was named after an American Indian chief named Catoosa? It was created from Whitfield and Walker counties and originally part of Cherokee county.One of the earliest areas to be settled in present Catoosa was the"city" of Dogwood or Dogwood Campground,(the future county seat of Ringgold)was at the intersection of three trade routes. The old Federal Highway from Savannah met up with the old road to Knoxville and Nashville right here. Hence the main street being Nashville street.

 Ringgold is on Latitude 34.915N and Longitude is -85.109W  Elevation is 778 feet above sea level. The town was named after Major Samuel Ringgold,the first American officer to die in the Mexican War.

 The ancestry  of Ringgold is a mixed bag with the following breakdown occurring:

  Irish-15% English-13% Black-6% Dutch-6% Scotch-Irish-4% Italian-3% French-3% British(any from Britain)-2% German-1% Welsh-1% Mexican 1% European-1% Scottish-1% All others equal -3%   What are YOU????

 How many people know that the famed Civil War locomotive Chase ended near Ringgold? There's a monument commemorating the capture of "The General" going north(or south-depends on your direction)on OOltewah-Ringgold Road. Check it out if you've never done so. HINT: It's beside the railroad tracks!

 Do you know when the Depot was built??   HINT: the year before 1850!

 The famous gospel hymn "Leaning On the Everlasting Arm" was FIRST performed at what local historic site where Highway 2 leaves US 41? HINT:It "rocks"!

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