Heritage Tourism and the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway

This exhibit focuses on heritage tourism and the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railway beginning in 1845 with the founding of the railway and ending in the 1940s with the decline of passenger travel on railroads. The exhibit will specifically detail the history of the railroad, the role the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway played in battlefield commemoration of the Civil War, and finally, the railroad's involvement in community celebrations.