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Local dignitaries and stakeholders jammed into the upstairs banquet room at Ruby Falls overlooking Chattanooga on Thursday evening, and cheers rumbled forth at the announcement of a new visitors center on Moccasin Bend.
Chattanooga leaders are developing a plan to preserve Moccasin Bend.
The public is invited to attend a public hearing discussing the past, present and future of the Moccasin Bend National Archeological District.
A public forum set for Thursday will focus on the past, present and future of Moccasin Bend in the face of state plans to build a new state mental health hospital atop land important to indigenous American history stretching back more than 12,000 years.
After the Lakeshore Mental Health Institute closed in 2012, those in need of long-term inpatient mental health care were sent elsewhere.