Chattanooga Arboretum and Nature Center
399 Garden Road, Chattanooga, TN 37419
Phone: 423-821-1160
http://www.chattanooganaturecenter.org/www
Cheekwood Art and Gardens
1200 Forrest Park Drive Nashville Tennessee 37205
Phone: 615.356.8000
http://www.cheekwood.org/
The Hermitage
Home of President Andrew Jackson
4580 Rachel's Lane, Nashville, TN 37076
Phone: 615-889-2941
http://www.thehermitage.com/
Showing posts with label Places to Go. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Places to Go. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Saturday, May 12, 2012
Gardens and Parks in Georgia
Gibbs Gardens in Ballground, Georgia is being called a "best-kept secret." (Funny, I thought that Cohutta Springs Conference Center enjoyed that title!) ;-) But... it does appear that this is a fairly new garden, or at least, is newly opened to the public, and contains 200 acres:
http://gibbsgardens.com/ ( or, try http://www.gibbsgardens.com )
Hills and Dales in LaGrange (formerly Fuller Callaway's mansion home): It's a nice garden, with boxwoods dating back over a hundred years, and some gorgeous walking paths. I believe the former owner was a brother of the Callaway who started Callaway Gardens.
Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain: A year or so ago, we went to the Botanical Gardens in Atlanta--all very nice gardens; so, Gibbs Gardens is a nice treat to look forward to...
Cohutta Springs Conference Center, Crandall, Georgia
Rock City Gardens
1400 Patten Road, Lookout Mountain, GA 30750
Phone: 706-820-2531
Toll-Free: 800-854-0675
http://seerockcity.com/
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
Visitor Center: 3370 LaFayette Road, Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742
Lookout Mountain Battlefield
Visitor Center: 110 Point Park Road, Lookout Mountain, TN 37350
http://www.nps.gov/chch/index.htm
http://gibbsgardens.com/ ( or, try http://www.gibbsgardens.com )
Hills and Dales in LaGrange (formerly Fuller Callaway's mansion home): It's a nice garden, with boxwoods dating back over a hundred years, and some gorgeous walking paths. I believe the former owner was a brother of the Callaway who started Callaway Gardens.
Callaway Gardens in Pine Mountain: A year or so ago, we went to the Botanical Gardens in Atlanta--all very nice gardens; so, Gibbs Gardens is a nice treat to look forward to...
Cohutta Springs Conference Center, Crandall, Georgia
Rock City Gardens
1400 Patten Road, Lookout Mountain, GA 30750
Phone: 706-820-2531
Toll-Free: 800-854-0675
http://seerockcity.com/
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park
Visitor Center: 3370 LaFayette Road, Fort Oglethorpe, GA 30742
Lookout Mountain Battlefield
Visitor Center: 110 Point Park Road, Lookout Mountain, TN 37350
http://www.nps.gov/chch/index.htm
Friday, February 3, 2012
LaGrange College (of Alabama?!)
LaGrange College in LaGrange, Georgia, is well enough known ~ but LaGrange College of Alabama? That came as a surprise to me. I found it in search, but it also appears that I have an old bi-fold brochure that I picked up at some rest stop. It's near Cullman, Alabama, and is really pretty old, which surprises me in more ways than one. In the first place, I'd heard of an old Civil War era college in Cullman, but I didn't think it was called LaGrange. So... is this a different one altogether? It does appear that it is defunct, or at least relevant in a historical sense only.
Note: The following is from an old brochure and might be obsolete. As things go these days, the whole place might be obsolete or gone. If so, this post shall simply serve as a reminder that this place once existed.
Here's the info, such as it is:
Established 1830. Has a Civil War cemetery. Once served as a holy ground to the Chickasaw Nation. Very old markers, including an Abraham Ricks monument (crafted by an Italian sculpture in 1852, then costing $5,000). Replica of a pioneer village (log cabin, outbuildings, country store, barn, smokehouse, two-room dogtrot cabin/museum).
Annual Events:
May: Recall LaGrange. Weekend after Mother's Day.*
September: LaGrange Fall Festival.
November: Christmas in the Country. Weekend after Thanksgiving.
LaGrange College Site Park, Pioneer Village and Antebellum Cemetery
It was once called the "West Point of the South." (And then came the Civil War). The enrollment read like a Who's Who, it says. When the War came, people deserted the towns in droves, to join up. "On April 28, 1863, Colonel Florence M. Cornyn and his 'Destroying Angels' swept through the valley and in a blink of an eye, LaGrange, the college and its very life was gone."
Northwest Alabama: These facilities are located four miles south of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in Leighton, west of Interstate 65 on Hwy. 72/20 (an alternate or loop). The map shows a location on Alabama Highway 72, at the intersection of Hwy. 157. It is just east of Florence Muscle Shoals (hmmm, shouldn't that be "mussel"? Hey, I'm just readin' the brochure, and it is Alabama, after all). It is just west of Decatur and northwest of Cullman, Alabama. It is northeast of Tuscaloosa, off of Hwy. 43. Selected directions: 140 miles southwest of Chattanooga, 220 miles northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, and 120 miles northwest of Birmingham, Alabama.
Restoration and preservation: memberships, donations.
LaGrange Living Historical Association, P.O. Box 306, Leighton, AL 35646
Phone: 205-446-9324 (or) 1-800-344-0783
Brochure says open daily year round. Welcome Center/Museum open Sundays 1-4 pm or by appointment.
*Recall LaGrange event, Fri., Sat., Sun. following Mother's Day, includes: Pioneer Village, Civil War Living History Daily Camp Life, First Impressions Cemetery Tour, Camp church service, 1860s period music, arts and crafts, ghost stories, blacksmith shop, period craft demonstrations, observatory for star gazers, antique engines and tractor display.
Note: The following is from an old brochure and might be obsolete. As things go these days, the whole place might be obsolete or gone. If so, this post shall simply serve as a reminder that this place once existed.
Here's the info, such as it is:
Established 1830. Has a Civil War cemetery. Once served as a holy ground to the Chickasaw Nation. Very old markers, including an Abraham Ricks monument (crafted by an Italian sculpture in 1852, then costing $5,000). Replica of a pioneer village (log cabin, outbuildings, country store, barn, smokehouse, two-room dogtrot cabin/museum).
Annual Events:
May: Recall LaGrange. Weekend after Mother's Day.*
September: LaGrange Fall Festival.
November: Christmas in the Country. Weekend after Thanksgiving.
LaGrange College Site Park, Pioneer Village and Antebellum Cemetery
It was once called the "West Point of the South." (And then came the Civil War). The enrollment read like a Who's Who, it says. When the War came, people deserted the towns in droves, to join up. "On April 28, 1863, Colonel Florence M. Cornyn and his 'Destroying Angels' swept through the valley and in a blink of an eye, LaGrange, the college and its very life was gone."
Northwest Alabama: These facilities are located four miles south of Muscle Shoals, Alabama, in Leighton, west of Interstate 65 on Hwy. 72/20 (an alternate or loop). The map shows a location on Alabama Highway 72, at the intersection of Hwy. 157. It is just east of Florence Muscle Shoals (hmmm, shouldn't that be "mussel"? Hey, I'm just readin' the brochure, and it is Alabama, after all). It is just west of Decatur and northwest of Cullman, Alabama. It is northeast of Tuscaloosa, off of Hwy. 43. Selected directions: 140 miles southwest of Chattanooga, 220 miles northwest of Atlanta, Georgia, and 120 miles northwest of Birmingham, Alabama.
Restoration and preservation: memberships, donations.
LaGrange Living Historical Association, P.O. Box 306, Leighton, AL 35646
Phone: 205-446-9324 (or) 1-800-344-0783
Brochure says open daily year round. Welcome Center/Museum open Sundays 1-4 pm or by appointment.
*Recall LaGrange event, Fri., Sat., Sun. following Mother's Day, includes: Pioneer Village, Civil War Living History Daily Camp Life, First Impressions Cemetery Tour, Camp church service, 1860s period music, arts and crafts, ghost stories, blacksmith shop, period craft demonstrations, observatory for star gazers, antique engines and tractor display.
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