Efforts to Save Historic Black Masonic Lodge in North Georgia Underway
Tuesday, January 4th, 2022
The stark gray metal sign with raised black letters indicates something important happened near Highway 341 in Chickamauga. It’s not the only historical marker in Walker County, 30 miles south of Chattanooga, Tennessee. There’s one down the road at the site of the Civil War Battle of Chickamauga, and another at the Gordon-Lee Mansion, a former plantation home that served as a field hospital for Union soldiers during that skirmish.
While the battlefield and the mansion have a grandeur, this particular marker heralds a single weathered building with ragged wooden planks and a blue tarp across the roof. Its importance is, at least on the surface, less obvious.
Read More at The Atlanta Journal Constitution.
