Lookout Mountain Cave saltpeter works
Niter works, Chattanooga, Tennessee.
- Side
- Confederate
- Kind
- Niter works
- Where
- Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Years
- 1862-1863
LOOKOUT MOUNTAIN CAVE
Robert Cravens rented the cave to the Nitre and Mining Bureau on June 1, 1862, and it supplied saltpeter for Confederate powder. Union forces shelled the works on June 7, 1863, and the operation ended when Federal forces occupied Chattanooga that year.
Then
Robert Cravens rented the cave to the Nitre and Mining Bureau on June 1, 1862, and it supplied saltpeter for Confederate powder.
Union forces shelled the works on June 7, 1863, and the Bureau's operation ended when Federal forces occupied Chattanooga that year.
Now
Track in service today runs beside the site, on a line owned by Norfolk Southern.
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