The city of Rockwood celebrates Christmas each year with a number of festivities, the central focus of which is a tour of historic, Victorian homes. 2019 Christmas in Rockwood brochure image (source: Facebook) (from the archived Rockwood 2000 Web site … Continue reading →
In 2005, the city of Rockwood dedicated a 1936 Highway Patrol Museum. Click here to view an archived album of photos from that event.
Continue reading →(from Rockwood 2000 archived Web page) Rockwood was founded in 1868 as the property of the Roane Iron Company. Prior to the Civil War, little iron was produced in Roane County. The aftermath of the war left Tennessee in a … Continue reading →
(from Steven Schoenherr’s archived Web page, dated 2006) John T. Wilder, known as the “Friendly Carpetbagger” was the leader of the Lightning Brigade of Indiana and hero of the battle of Chickamauga in Sept. 1863 where he and his men … Continue reading →
(from the archived RCHC Web site) A History of Rockwood Transcribed from Historical Review of Rockwood – 1968 In 1794 the land upon which the City of Rockwood is now located was owned by the Indians. A territorial legislature was … Continue reading →
(from the archived RCHC Web site) Before the commission for the construction of the Manhattan Project (Oak Ridge) by President Roosevelt in 1942, a thriving community stood near the site of the present day K-25 Gaseous Diffusion plant. It included … Continue reading →
(from the archived RCHC Web site) From: The Rockwood Times, 19 Jul 1917 Ault Home Destroyed By Fire Sunday Night. The historic and picturesque home of G. W. Ault, located at Postoak, four miles east of Rockwood, was totally destroyed … Continue reading →
(from the archived RCHC Web site) From: The Rockwood Times, Thursday, 26 Jun 1919, Vol. 39, No. 26. A lady who was born in Hinds Valley, but is not now a resident of this state, has read in the Rockwood … Continue reading →
(from the archived RCHC Web site) From: The Chattanooga Daily Times, Saturday, 5 Nov 1881. Glen Alice is 65 miles from Chattanooga, on the Cincinnati Southern Railway. We have a station, a depot agent, but no depot, a postoffice by … Continue reading →
(from the archived RCHC Web site) From: The Chattanooga Daily Times, Thursday, 7 Apr 1890. Commercial Club Officers–First Baby Boy–Building Boom. Cardiff, Tenn., Aug. 5.–The Cardiff Commercial club has elected officers as follows: H. M. Lord, president; M. M. Duncan, … Continue reading →
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