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On Clisby Austin Drive east of Oak Street, on the left when traveling east.
Baggage Carts were one of the utilitarian devices used by almost all railroads to move goods and luggage around their depots. They received little more attention than the broom in the corner, but without them, the expediency of railroad freight . . . — — Map (db m143006) HM
On Clisby Austin Road at Hunt Road, on the left when traveling east on Clisby Austin Road.
These blocks are some of the limestone blocks that were cut from the surface rock on Rocky Face Ridge and brought down for use in the building of the Tunnel and the nearby W&A Depot in the mid-1800s. Surface ledge quarries are exposed areas of . . . — — Map (db m209081) HM
On Hunt Road, 0.1 miles south of Clisby Austin Road, on the right when traveling south.
Captain Thomas Jefferson Key earned a reputation as an audacious battery commander, often running his guns up close to the enemy in advance of the infantry. Many reports and correspondence mention the incredibly fast loading and firing that . . . — — Map (db m209191) HM
On Clisby Austin Drive east of Oak Street, on the left when traveling east.
400 yds. S.E., at the big spring, is the brick residence known as the Austin House.
May 7, 1864 The Federal forces, having seized Tunnel Hill their first movement in the campaign for Atlanta Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman had headquarters at the . . . — — Map (db m209507) HM
On New Hope Church Road, 0 miles east of Crow Valley Road, on the right when traveling west.
In 1864 the direct road from Tunnel Hill to Varnell's, passed through Harris Gap at this point, which is just N. of where Rocky Face drops off into continuous foot-hills. Federal operations in Crow Valley by the 23d A.C., began with its march S. . . . — — Map (db m10945) HM
On Hunt Road, 0.1 miles south of Clisby Austin Road, on the right when traveling south.
During the mid to late nineteenth century, general stores were generally the first business establishments built in a town. As successors to the trading post which served the pioneers and early settlers, general stores were located at crossroads . . . — — Map (db m209184) HM
On Hunt Road, 0.1 miles south of Clisby Austin Road, on the right when traveling south.
Constructed in 1848 by Reverend Clisby Austin, "Meadowlawn" is a prime example of an antebellum style home. A wooden plank walkway extended from the house to the nearby Western and Atlantic Railroad Depot.
When Civil War hostilities . . . — — Map (db m209429) HM
On Clisby Austin Drive, 0.4 miles east of Oak Street.
[Left Side of Marker]
The Excavation
of the west end was
begun early July 15, 1848.
& the first opening
effected Oct. 31, 1849
The first train
of cars passed through
May 9, 1850
Length of excavation
in this end 575 feet . . . — — Map (db m20002) HM
On Hunt Road, 0.1 miles south of Clisby Austin Road, on the right when traveling south.
In 1848, the 46 year old Reverend Clisby Austin, a farmer and business man from east Tennessee, arrived in the new village of Tunnelsville with his wife and twelve children. He purchased one hundred and sixty acres and established himself as a . . . — — Map (db m209427) HM
On Clisby Austin Drive east of Oak Street, on the left when traveling east.
May 7, 1864. The Federal forces, under Maj. Gen. W.T. Sherman, began the campaign for Atlanta by seizing Tunnel Hill. Howard's 4th A.C., having marched from Catoosa Springs, drover Wheeler's Cav. from the R.R. tunnel S. to Mill Creek Gap. Palmer's . . . — — Map (db m12361) HM
On Clisby Austin Drive, 0.1 miles Oak Street, on the left when traveling east.
The city of Tunnel Hill was incorporated in 1848.
The next year the state of Georgia began
construction of a depot in anticipation of the
completion of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
This rail line linked Atlanta to Chattanooga. Yet
before . . . — — Map (db m142946) HM
On Clisby Austin Drive east of Oak Street, on the left when traveling east.
The W&A (Western & Atlantic) Railroad Depot was constructed by the State of Georgia between 1848-1850 as part of the state-owned Western & Atlantic Railroad. This depot is one of Georgia's oldest. The Depot witnessed many important events during the . . . — — Map (db m143005) HM
On Clisby Austin Drive east of Oak Street, on the left when traveling east.
The 1447 foot long Chetoogeta Mountain railroad tunnel is one-half mile east of this marker. The tunnel was completed in 1850 and this opened the W&A RR from Atlanta to Chattanooga. This was the first railroad tunnel completed south of the . . . — — Map (db m30587) HM
On Clisby Austin Road east of Oak Street, on the left when traveling east.
The display in front of you consists of one bent rail and two straight rails from the Civil War era. The bent rail was recovered in August of 2011 from the murky waters of Swamp Creek near the Western and Atlantic Railroad trestle just north of . . . — — Map (db m193680) HM
