Women and men sit on Umbrella Rock on Lookout Mountain at the northwest corner of the U.S. state of Georgia, the northeast corner of Alabama, and along the southeastern Tennessee state line in Chattanooga. You can see seven states from the top – Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama. Well, so they say.
Umbrella Rock atop Lookout Mountain was a popular tourist attraction from the 1880s to the 1940s. The Confederate army held the Mountain until 1863 during the US Civil War. The union army established a military hospital complex on the summit.
Photographer JB Linn opened a studio there, photographing Union soldiers as they posed on the cliffs and Umbrella Rock. The family closed the business and demolished the shack in 1937.
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Umbrella Rock Mountain Tennessee
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Photograph of the J. L. Lovvorn and J. W. Barrow families at Umbrella Rock, Lookout Mountain, Hamilton County, Tennessee, ca. 1915
Mark Beck family, from Gadsden, Alabama, sitting on Umbrella Rock on Lookout Mountain, Tennessee. The ‘heel’ of Moccasin Bend is visible on the left. Image taken around 1920.
Shown standing on Umbrella Rock on Lookoutout Mountain (overlooking the Tennesse River and Chattanooga) is Lucy Ann Taylor. This picture was taken April 4, 1921, when Lucy was 22 years old. Lucy was born in Morristown, Tennessee in 1898, and taught for decades at the Roberts School in Morristown. – via Donna Haun Baker
The Linn Family photo shack atop the Mountain in 1937. A spot that the Linn’s occupied since 1863. George Thomas Linn would close up the family’s photography business and have the shack demolished in August of that same year.
– via Chattanooga Historical Society
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