5 Interesting Facts About Chattanooga, TN

If you’re considering visiting or relocating to Chattanooga there are a lot of interesting facts about our city. Sometimes it’s fun to learn about the facts that are “unique”, rather than about the population and employment statistics. Even those who have lived in this city their entire lives may not know everything about this area. With that in mind, let’s look at the following five facts about Chattanooga TN.

The International Towing and Recovering Hall of Fame and Museum is in this city because it’s the birthplace of tow trucks.

In 2012, Chattanooga developed a unique distinction by launching a one-of-a-kind typeface called Chatype. A typeface is a design of letters, numbers and other symbols, to be used in printing or for electronic display. To put it in simple terms, each variation of a typeface is a font. “The development of this typeface marked the first time a city in America did anything like this.” It was also the first time an American city crowd-funded a custom-made typeface to be used in a municipality.

Chattanooga TN is surrounded by many ridges and mountains because it lies at the changeover between the Cumberland Plateau and the Appalachian Mountains.

Chattanooga was a prime area during the Civil War and is home to the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Military Park, the country’s first and largest military park.

Although other internet service providers have now caught up, Chattanooga was the first city in the world to bring gig internet speeds to its customers. Hence, the city’s nickname “Gig City”. Chattanooga’s Electric Power Board can offer speeds of 1Gbps, compared to the average U.S. download speed of 25.86Mbps. EPB is able to invest heavily in infrastructure due to our fairly small population which allows everyone to benefit from increased speeds due to having fiber optics connections in an entire community.