Moccasin Bend from Point Park on Lookout Mountain
Credit National Park Partners
Here in Chattanooga, Forever Moccasin Bend is the fundraising effort led byNational Park Partners - starting with Opening the Gateway - that will add park and new visitor amenities at the District s Gateway Site.
Former Congressman Zach Wamp led the eight-year effort in Washington to create the District back in 2003.
Another person who knows well the history of Moccasin Bend - and has helped to shape what it is today - is Mickey Robbins, now on the board of National Park Partners.
And for decades, Sally Robinson has played a key role in revitalizing Chattanooga’s downtown and riverfront development - including three terms on the City Council and the long road to Moccasin Bend today.
Scenic Roots Radio Show Has Series On Moccasin Bend Friday, December 11, 2020
Mickey Robbins
Through a special partnership with WUTC 88.1 and the Scenic Roots radio show, National Park Partners presents a series of interviews in December with leaders in the effort to preserve the historic and cultural legacy of Moccasin Bend.
First to be interviewed was Mickey Robbins, longtime Board of Directors member going back to the earliest days of the Friends of Moccasin Bend. Mr. Robbins shared some key moments in nearly 100 years of efforts to preserve Moccasin Bend, including a 1920 s attempt by prominent Chattanoogan Adolph Ochs.
Next up was former Congressman Zach Wamp with a civics lesson in how the grassroots community effort to save Moccasin Bend ultimately resulted in the National Park legislation he wrote and pushed through Congress in 2003. Congressman Wamp offers a glimpse into why Moccasin Bend has been a focal point of human habitation for millennia.