It was a cold wintery day in late February 1912, but the Chattanooga Commissioners were
already focused on welcoming Spring to the city when Commissioners H. Clay Evans and T. C.
Betterton introduced a resolution at the commission meeting. Olympia Park, to be purchased
by the city with a first installment of $20,000 of the total of $100,000, was to be renamed
Warner Park in honor of Chattanooga Commissioner Joseph H. Warner. The ordinance was
immediately adopted; naming the city’s ... more