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vision not only to house the Center for Integrative Medicine and Center MedSpa, but to pay homage to the history of Main Street in Chat- tanooga.
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serve the community not only through the medical practice and med spa, but through
informational sessions in the Montgomery Room.
Terry Jump made the big leap into building a struc- ture to house her two current businesses as well as grow another busi- ness and have a community room, she wanted to pay tribute to her new neigh- borhood. “There were many
discussions about the different ways to show respect to its history,” she says, “and ultimately we focused on the community room. We asked ourselves, ‘What can be attributed to a room where events on education, exercise and entertainment will be the topics that bring people, community, to- gether?’” That led to conversations with
local historian John Dever Jr., who pro- vided information on Main Street’s his-
tory as well as old pictures of the area. “One photo of Main Street was labeled ‘Montgomery Av- enue,’” Jump recalls. “Our curiosity about the street’s previous name inspired us to do some research to discover the name- sake for Montgom- ery Avenue.” It has been
noted that the streets parallel to
the river were numbered streets; Main Street was originally Fifteenth Street. According to The History of Hamilton County and Chat- tanooga, Tennessee, Volume 2, by Zella Armstrong, Ben-
jamin “Rush” Montgomery, an attorney from Virginia, came to Chattanooga around 1838 and declared Fifteenth Street “the center of the universe.” Soon the area became a burgeoning place of commerce and was renamed Montgom- ery Avenue.
And that honor was well-deserved: Rush Montgomery made many contri- butions to the city of Chattanooga. The late city historian Henry Wiltse noted that as a board member representing
the city’s Third Ward, Montgomery was involved with decisions pertain- ing to road widths, railroad expansion and even newspaper prices. As one of Chattanooga’s pioneer residents, he was part of a group responsible for the city’s reputation as “the Dynamo of Dixie.” Further research revealed that Rush Montgomery had a son, also named Benjamin Rush Montgomery, who was born in Chattanooga, became a physi- cian, and died of yellow fever in Mem- phis in 1878. His obituary stated, “The hero rushes on death amid the clash of the battle and his acts are called heroic. But to answer a call did Dr. Montgom- ery, to mingle with and battle conta- gion, to soothe fever fired brains and to aid the widow and succor the orphan, in short to bravely stand under the wings of death, displays a higher and nobler order of courage not honored as it should be on this earth.” “Through this research it was in- teresting to find a connection between Rush Montgomery’s son as a physician and the medical practice that will be a part of the Center on Main,” says Jeanne Harris, CIM project coordinator. She says Center on Main will serve the community not only through the medical practice and med spa, but through informational sessions in the Montgomery Room. There are plans for yoga, tai chi, educational conversations and kitchen demonstrations.
The newly opened Center on Main is located at 320 E. Main St., Chatta- nooga. For more information about the facility, including the Center for Integra- tive Medicine and Center MedSpa, visit
CIM.md. or
CenterMedSpa.com.
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