Ringgold Gap

Historical marker location:

Ringgold, Georgia

( Marker is on Nashville Street (U.S. 41) 0.3 miles south of Peters Lane, on the left when traveling north.)

Marker installed: 1996

November 27, 1863.

The city of Atlanta hosted the Summer Olympics in 1996, and it was the first time that a bomb exploded at the Olympic Games, killing two people and injuring over 100 others.