While sitting on his front porch in the summer of 1965 on E. Manning Street, my grandfather, E.C.Freudenberg, said something like, “North Chattanooga will one day see a revival, not in my lifetime but maybe in yours.” Grandpa’s prophetic words are now coming to pass.
The Freudenberg family is believed to have come to the United States in the late 1800s from a little European city, Freudenberg, Germany. They settled in Ohio but part of the family moved to Signal Mountain – Walden’s Ridge.
This writer’s great-grandfather re-located from the mountain to North Chattanooga near the river and opened Freudenberg Grocery in the 300 block of N. Market Street. My grandfather, Emmons Freudenberg, ... (click for more)