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![McCoy During the Civil War](https://mccoyfarmandgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Wheelers-Raid.webp)
After a major defeat at the Battle of Chickamauga, Union troops retreated into Chattanooga. The only route from the federal…
![Early McCoy Farm & Garden Organization History](https://mccoyfarmandgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/House-Early-MFG-scaled.jpg)
The earliest organized effort to promote the public ownership and enjoyment of the Bachman/McCoy property was a “Sunday Social hosted…
![Nathan L. Bachman Called ‘Brightest Wit in the Senate”](https://mccoyfarmandgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/Bachman-Senator.Nathan_at-his-desk.jpg)
Many are familiar with the Bachman name in Chattanooga, but few know much about Nathan L. Bachman, a U.S. senator…
![History of Anderson Pike and the W Road: Wheeler’s Raid, Union Supply Wagons, Grant’s Trek, Cholera and Yellow Fever, Summertown, Little Brown Church, Bootleggers, and Other Stories](https://mccoyfarmandgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/WRoad-525x300-1.png)
by Frank “Mickey” Robbins Anderson Pike and the “W” Road have a rich and colorful history. It began centuries ago…
![Oral History Project with UTC](https://mccoyfarmandgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/mccoy-front-house-scaled.jpeg)
The McCoy Farm and Gardens oral histories digital collection includes interviews regarding the history of McCoy Farm and Gardens and Walden Ridge…
![McCoy Farm History](https://mccoyfarmandgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Bachman-property-from-west-in-snow_house.barn_.water-tower-c.1912.jpg)
Before her death in 2004, Martha Bachman McCoy began conveying her historic family farm to the town of Walden. The…
![Emma Bell Miles at Albion View](https://mccoyfarmandgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Emma-Bell-Miles-525x300-1.png)
(note: This is text of a speech given by Kay Gaston on April 28, 2017, relative to the 5 acres…
![Martha Bachman McCoy](https://mccoyfarmandgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/McCoys_Sally.Tom_.Martha.BigFoot-about-1948.jpg)
Martha Bachman McCoy had a lot to live up to. Her Grandfather, Jonathan Waverly Bachman, the revered pastor at the…
![Jonathan Waverly Bachman](https://mccoyfarmandgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Bachman-525x300-1.png)
Dr. Jonathan Waverly Bachman and three of his brothers fought for the Confederacy during the Civil War. Afterward, he endured…
Senator Nathan Bachman (1878 - 1937) and Pearl Duke Bachman (1879 - 1938)
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![Nathan Bachman and Pearl Duke Bachman](https://mccoyfarmandgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/Pearl-Nathan-Bachman-e1681565028630-700x700.jpg)
Formation of Nonprofit McCoy Farm & Gardens
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![house early mccoy farm](https://mccoyfarmandgardens.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/06/House-Early-MFG-scaled.jpg)