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Tunnel Hill Heritage Center & Museum

Tunnel Hill Heritage Center & Museum is a museum in Tunnel Hill, GA, part of the Chattanooga and Helen guide. Cost: under $25.

215 Clisby Austin Dr · Tunnel Hill, GA

Why you should go…

The heritage center covers more than 160 years of railroad and Civil War history in Tunnel Hill. Its centerpiece is the 1,447-foot Western & Atlantic Railroad Tunnel, completed in 1850 as the first major railroad tunnel in the South, where you can still see the original drill marks. The tunnel lay on the route of the 1862 Great Locomotive Chase. Tours also take in the museum and the 1848 Clisby Austin House, Sherman's headquarters in May 1864.

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#civil war history
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