Red Bank, Tennessee
Population: 12,418
Located in Hamilton County
Before the Civil War, the area we now know as Red Bank was called Dry Valley or Hamilton. After the war a union church was established where all denominations came together to worship and the area eventually became known as Pleasant Hills. In 1885, George S. Hartman, the area's first Postmaster, received a letter from the Post Office Department requesting that the name Pleasant Hills be changed because the name was already being used in several other areas. After receiving the request, Mr. and Mrs. Hartman were sitting in their home trying to think of another name for their rapidly growing community when Mrs. Hartman looked out the window and saw the red bank of a hill, freshly washed by rain. So, in 1887 "Red Bank" became the community's official name.
Red Bank began as an early rural suburb of Chattanooga running along the Dayton Pike from Stringer's Ridge to Daisy, TN. It's growth began by a housing boom following World War I. Early settlements sprang up along the stops of the Chattanooga Traction Company trolley line. The first of these stops being Valdeau; then came White Oak, Flora, Morrison, Ford and Red Bank. Other divisions of the area were called Midvale Park, Oak Wood, Druid Hills and Rustic Dale. Numerous large and beautiful homes were built in Red Bank along Dayton Pike in the late 1800s and early 1900s. So many in fact, that in 1924, a movement began by many of the residents along the Pike, to have the area renamed "Daytonia". An effort was also made to have the name of the Red Bank School changed to Daytonia and the Chattanooga Traction Company was even asked to change the name on the Red Bank Trolley car. Many older settlers of the Dayton Pike opposed the name change and the efforts eventually faded.
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