Chattanooga, TN - Like a phoenix rising from the ashes, the Mayor's Mansion Inn was created and built in the years after the scourge of the Civil War. This beautiful mansion, now a Bed & Breakfast Inn, is located in the historic Fort Wood district next to downtown Chattanooga. The Fort Wood District was originally named for a Civil War redoubt. All but three of the Civil War fortifications in the immediate Chattanooga area were leveled by 1880; Fort Wood was one of the remaining three. Starting in the late 1880's, development came to the area; Fort Wood took its first steps to becoming one of the most exclusive residential ...