Located on top of Lookout Mountain, Rock City is only six miles from downtown Chattanooga. Opened in 1932, it became a popular tourist destination through mass roadside advertising: the phrase "See Rock City" was painted on more than nine-hundred barns throughout the southeast, as far west as Texas, and as far north as Michigan. On a clear day, supposedly, one can see seven states—Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Georgia, and Alabama—from Rock City.

Published: 28 February 2007
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