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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Shelby County, Tennessee
Adjacent to Shelby County, Tennessee
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| On Madison Avenue just east of Claybrook Street. |
| | "When nothing else subsists from the past, after the people are dead, after the things are broken and scattered. The smell and taste of things remain poised a long time, like souls. Bearing resiliently, on tiny and almost impalpable drops of . . . — — Map (db m89358) HM WM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Lake Providence, Louisiana
Mile 487.3 AHP
To guide a boat past this point without falling prey to murderous pirates of the area was considered an “act of providence” in the early 1800s. Both the ancient oxbow lake to the . . . — — Map (db m115522) HM |
| On Beale Street at South 2nd Street, on the right when traveling west on Beale Street. |
| | Lansky Brothers was founded in 1946 by Bernard and Guy Lansky with a $125 investment from their father, S. L. Lansky. The store began at 126 Beale Street as an army surplus store, but gradually changed to accommodate customers interested in a . . . — — Map (db m63367) HM |
| On North 3rd Street (Tennessee Route 14) at Winchester Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North 3rd Street. |
| | Lauderdale Courts
Built in 1936 by the Federal Emergency Administration of Public Works, Lauderdale Courts was one of the first federal housing projects in the nation. It replaced substandard housing with clean, modern dwellings for the . . . — — Map (db m87028) HM |
| Near Walker Avenue just from Dr. Hollis F. Price Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Against the turbulent backdrop of the 1960s, the LeMoyne College Class of 1968 not only earned under-graduate degrees but also distinguished itself through leadership in civil rights advocacy both on and off campus. Fellowship, in 1966 class . . . — — Map (db m147547) HM |
| On Walker Avenue just east of Lenow Place, on the right when traveling east. |
| | LeMoyne-Owen College, originally known as LeMoyne Normal and Commercial School, opened its doors circa 1870 on Orleans Street. The school operated under the auspices of the American Missionary Association and was funded through a gift of Dr. F.J. . . . — — Map (db m149018) HM |
| On Madison Ave. just west of B.B. King (Tennessee Route 14), on the right when traveling west. |
| | For someone to choose this country and live through 17 U.S. Presidents is amazing. Eugene Magevney was born in 1798 in Ireland. He must have heard the call of freedom from America as a child while our nation was still in its infancy and John Adams . . . — — Map (db m115917) HM |
| On Jefferson Avenue at Manassas Street on Jefferson Avenue. |
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Born in Germany in 1835, Elias Lowenstein emigrated to Memphis in 1854. The firm which he headed, B. Lowenstein & Bros. Department Store, was prominent in Memphis for 125 years. A leader in the Jewish community, he served as president of Temple . . . — — Map (db m74816) HM |
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Born in Duck Hill, Mississippi, in 1885, the youngest of seven children,
Lucie E. Campbell moved to Memphis and was educated in the Memphis public
schools. She graduated as valedictorian from Kortrecht High School (later . . . — — Map (db m89011) HM |
| On North Orleans Street just north of Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | A Confederate officer who was cited for gallantry, he held the office of attorney-general for Shelby County. Wright also served as the first governor-general of the Philippines and as the first official ambassador to Japan, and under President . . . — — Map (db m148986) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Lutcher, Louisiana
Mile 147.6 AHP
Tobacco was never a very successful cash crop for early French settlers, with the notable exception of Pierre Channet, who lived near here. The “Perique tobacco” he developed is still . . . — — Map (db m114928) HM |
| On Adams Avenue west of North Orleans Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Built circa 1852, this 25-room Italian villa-style mansion was home to the Isaac Kirtland, Benjamin Babb, James C. Neely, Daniel Grant, and Barton Lee Mallory families between 1852 and 1969. Extensively renovated during the 1880s and 1890s, it . . . — — Map (db m63369) HM |
| On N. Manasass Street just south of Wells Ave.. |
| | Manassas High School
Manassas High School was established by Spencer Johnson and others in 1899 on the west side of Manassas Street. Originally a two-room framed structure in 1900, more rooms were added between 1902 and 1904. In 1918, a . . . — — Map (db m87974) HM |
| On North Front Street at Jackson Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Front Street. Reported missing. |
| | On this corner Marcus B. Winchester in 1819 set up the first store in Memphis, and in 1821 the first post office. Son of General James Winchester, he was agent for the original proprietors of the Rice Tract and was largely responsible for the early . . . — — Map (db m116283) HM |
| On Madison Avenue at North B.B. King Boulevard, on the right when traveling east on Madison Avenue. |
| | Marion Scudder Griffin, although qualified, was refused a Tennessee law license for seven years solely because she was a woman. In 1907, she became the first woman attorney in Tennessee after she successfully lobbied the legislature to admit women . . . — — Map (db m116302) HM |
| Near Walker Avenue just west of Cummings Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | First Woman Lawyer
in Tennessee
1907
First Woman Elected
to the Tennessee
House Of Representatives
1922
— — Map (db m149021) HM |
| On Market Avenue just west of North 2nd Street (Tennessee Highway 3), on the right when traveling west. |
| | Before selling Memphis lots, developers set
aside this park as Market Square in 1819.
Facing it was the first courthouse, built in
1820, which was also used as a church and
newspaper office.
Near the square was a
frontier hotel, the first . . . — — Map (db m148628) HM |
| On East E. H. Crump Boulevard just east of South Danny Thomas Boulevard (Tennessee Highway 1), on the left when traveling east. |
| | Martin Stadium, formerly known as Lewis Park, was home of one of the most enduring teams of the Negro Leagues — the Memphis Red Sox (1920s-1950s). During its era, the stadium was one of the few African-American-owned and operated ball parks in . . . — — Map (db m148990) HM |
| On Beale Street east of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Born in Memphis in 1863, Mary Church Terrell was noted as a champion of human rights. The daughter of millionaire Robert Church, Sr., she was graduated from Oberlin College in 1884 and later made her home in Washington, D.C. In 1904, she was a . . . — — Map (db m63342) HM |
| Near Mason Street at Tapton Place. |
| | This temple serves as foremost edifice at the world headquarters of the Church of God in Christ which was organized in 1897 by Bishop Charles Harrison Mason, son of former slaves. Built during World War II by the loyal members of the Church, Mason . . . — — Map (db m89004) HM |
| On Old Southern Avenue 0.1 miles east of Semmes. |
| | Judge John Louis Taylor Sneed (1820-1901) named this house which is built of native poplar and cypress. Only a few of this "Victorian piano-box" style, more common to middle-Tennessee, survive. E.A. Spottswood, Sr. sold this land to Levi Joy in . . . — — Map (db m84457) HM |
| On Dallas Street 0.1 miles north of Park Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Melrose School was an educational, cultural and civic center of the Orange Mound African-American community. Completed by the New Deal's Public Works Administration in 1938. This structure added to the original Rosenwald school's capacity to . . . — — Map (db m149029) HM |
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In Memoriam
1917-------------1918
In Memory of
The Four Members of
The Memphis and Shelby County
Medical Society
Who gave their lives in the service
of their fellow men in the World War
Capt. Robert B. Underwood - Lieut. A.P. . . . — — Map (db m88260) WM |
| Near Veterans Plaza Drive 0.1 miles north of Poplar Avenue. |
| | Front
Margaret Polk
Margaret Polk was a Memphis resident and a graduate of the Hutchison School. While a student at Southwestern in Memphis, she dated Pilot Robert Morgan prior to his deployment overseas. Bob named his B-17F-Memphis . . . — — Map (db m85160) HM WM |
| | In 1836 the state authorized building a brick hospital on this site, chiefly for river travelers. In 1873 it became a municipal institution. After its razing in 1891, the location became Forrest Park. — — Map (db m74826) HM |
| | In August, 1878, fear of death caused a panic during which 30,000 of 50,000 Memphians fled this bluff city. By October, the epidemic of yellow fever killed 4,204 of 6,000 Caucasians and 946 of 14,000 Negros who stayed. With some outside help, . . . — — Map (db m7583) HM |
| | This National Cemetery has been listed in The National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior 1996 — — Map (db m107637) WM |
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Built in 1955 by the Dubuque Boat & Boiler Company, the Memphis Queen II was the first all-steel passenger ship on the Mississippi River. Measuring 85 feet long by 43 feet wide, it features two decks, two smokestacks, and a stern wheel . . . — — Map (db m88257) HM |
| On Alumni Avenue just north of Walker Avenue. |
| | Front
In the fall of 1959 some 4,500 students enrolled at Memphis State University. Among them were eight African Americans, the first to break the University's color barrier. They were Bertha Mae Rogers (Looney), Rose Blakney (Love) and . . . — — Map (db m86685) HM |
| On Ridgeway just south of Park Ave.. |
| | Founded in the downtown area in 1893 by Principals E.S. Werts and J.W.S Rhea, Memphis University School soon became the city's leading boys' preparartory school. Although the "old MUS" succumbed to the Great Depression in 1936, alumni and friends . . . — — Map (db m87087) HM |
| | Memphis, Tennessee Its central location on the Mississippi River has been the basis for Memphiss growth. The fourth Chickasaw Bluff was long occupied by the Native American tribe for whom it was named. France and later Spain built forts there . . . — — Map (db m115006) HM |
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Mertie W. Buckman was known in Memphis as a prominent philanthropist who provided her talent, energy and financial support to many initiatives in our community. She wanted her life to make a difference-to connect to and impact the larger . . . — — Map (db m132048) HM |
| On Vance Avenue 0 miles west of East Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | On September 15, 1968, thirty clergy and lay people from different congregations and different races established MIFA. For decades before, faith leaders had considered ways the community could unite, but after the sanitation worker's strike and the . . . — — Map (db m129978) HM |
| Near Riverside Drive at Court Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
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When Riverside Drive was constructed in the mid-1930's, this park was built on what had been an old dumping ground for construction debris and dredge soil. It was enlarged to its present size in 1937, using material dredged from the river. . . . — — Map (db m88264) HM |
| On G.E. Patterson Avenue at South Main Street, on the right when traveling east on G.E. Patterson Avenue. |
| | Front
On this South Main Street corner in 1988 the modern wave of Memphis movie making was born, in great measure through the efforts of the Memphis & Shelby County Film Commissioner Linn Sitler and Shelby County Government official . . . — — Map (db m116289) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A0 Mounds Landing Crevasse
Mile 560.5 AHP
The Mounds Landing Crevasse was the most disastrous levee break during the great flood of 1927. The levee was old, originally built in 1867, and a ferryboats frequent landings had weakened the . . . — — Map (db m115528) HM |
| On Carnes St. at David Street, on the right when traveling west on Carnes St.. |
| | Mt. Moriah was founded in 1879. The oldest church in the area, it was relocated to this site in 1893, predating the Orange Mound community by seven years. A vernacular-sandstone building, the present edifice was completed in 1926, during the . . . — — Map (db m83960) HM |
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Mud Island, across the old Wolf River channel before you, began to be formed by the Mississippi River around 1900. By 1916 there was concern that it would grow so far south that it would block access to the harbor, so the island was connected to . . . — — Map (db m88265) HM |
| | A. Mulatto Bend
Mile 236.6 AHP
A group of Mulatto Freedmen of French dissent established a settlement here in the early 1800s and the river pilots named it Mulatto Bend. Wilkinson Point at the crook of the bend suffered a major washout in . . . — — Map (db m115000) HM |
| On Walnut Grove Road at Mendenhall Road, on the left on Walnut Grove Road. |
| | Mullins United Methodist Church, named for its first minister, the Reverend Lorenzo Dow Mullins, was established July 15, 1845, in a one-room log cabin structure on this site. Federal troops dismantled the building using its timbers to construct . . . — — Map (db m84551) HM |
| On Union Avenue (U.S. 51) west of Dunlap Street, on the right when traveling west. |
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On June 28, 1900, a group of over 100 sons and grandsons of Confederate veterans met in Memphis to organize a local chapter, or "camp" of the United Sons of Confederate Veterans, later known as the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV). Following . . . — — Map (db m82854) HM |
| On Summer Ave. (U.S. 70) at Sycamore View Road, on the right when traveling east on Summer Ave.. |
| | To the south lay this plantation. Here, in 1827, a Scottish spinster heiress named Francis Wright set up a colony whose aims were the enforcement of cooperative living and other advanced sociological experiments. It failed in 1830. — — Map (db m85673) HM |
| On Beale Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | In 1948, Nat D. Williams became the first black radio announcer in Memphis when he began broadcasting for WDIA. He was a cofounder of the Cotton Makers Jubilee and is credited with giving the celebration its name. A history teacher in the Memphis . . . — — Map (db m13748) HM |
| | A. Natchez Island
Mile 357.5 AHP
Now joined to the Louisiana shore, this island was the site of one of the last steamboat accidents on the Mississippi River. The Tennessee Belle was a 38-year veteran of the river trade when she caught fire . . . — — Map (db m115162) HM |
| | French settlers arrived in the early 1700s establishing Fort Rosalie and a small plantation. The Natchez attacked in 1729, killing most of the settlers and French retaliation virtually destroyed the tribe. The British arrived in 1763, but Spain . . . — — Map (db m115161) HM |
| On Union Avenue (U.S. 51) west of Dunlap Street, on the right when traveling west. Reported permanently removed. |
| | Nathan - Bedford - Forrest
MDCCCXXI - MDCCCLXVII
"Those hoof beats die not upon fame's crimson sod,
But will ring through her song and her story;
He fought like a Titan and struck like a god,
And his dust is our ashes of glory."
. . . — — Map (db m51510) HM |
| On Union Avenue (U.S. 79) west of South Dunlap Street, on the right when traveling west. |
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Brigadier General N.B. Forrest, III, U.S. Army Air Force, was born in Memphis on April 7, 1905 and was the first American General Officer killed in combat against the nazis during World War II. He died while participating in a B-17 bomber raid on . . . — — Map (db m82855) HM |
| On North Front Street south of Jefferson Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Atop these bluffs in the early morning hours of June 6, 1862, the citizens of Memphis gathered in excited anticipation as the Confederate River Defense Fleet steamed out into the Mississippi to meet the descending Union Gunboat Fleet. The . . . — — Map (db m116185) HM |
| On Messick Road at Hickory Crest Drive, on the right when traveling east on Messick Road. |
| | This house was home to two owners who experienced differently the tribulations of the Civil War. The first, Thomas A. Nelson (1819-1887), acquired property on Poplar Pike in 1869 as a rural refuge from the yellow fever epidemics that periodically . . . — — Map (db m119871) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) New Madrid, Missouri
Mile 888.7 AHP
The New Madrid townsite was laid out in 1788 by Colonel George Morgan, who had brought settlers, hoping to make it the capital of an independent Spanish-allied state. The expected land grant from . . . — — Map (db m114732) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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Mile 95.0 AHP
Throughout its long and colorful history, New Orleans has been both a center of commerce and Mecca for seekers of a good time. As the Mississippis gateway to international trade, it has become the third largest port in the . . . — — Map (db m114923) HM |
| On Lane Avenue just west of Jones Street, on the right when traveling west. |
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New Winchester Burying Ground was established in 1828 by deed from the original proprietors of Memphis. It occupied almost 11 acres within an area now bounded by Lane Ave. on the south, Danny Thomas Blvd. on the west, the old L&N Railroad tracks . . . — — Map (db m148978) HM |
| On South Dudley Street 0.1 miles south of Sledge Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
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In four public lots known collectively as "No Man's Land" lie the remains of at least 1400 victims of the Great Yellow Fever Epidemics of 1873, 1878, and 1879. Memphis lost over 8500 citizens to the disease and 2500 of these rest at Elmwood. . . . — — Map (db m149020) |
| On Walker Ave., on the right when traveling east. |
| | Southern Railway's Normal Depot was completed in time for the dedication of the West Tennessee Normal School on September 10, 1912. A brick Craftsman-style building with a tiled hip roof, it was a commuter station with separate white and "colored" . . . — — Map (db m84112) HM |
| On Spottswood Avenue at Echeles Street, on the right when traveling west on Spottswood Avenue. |
| | Named for a teacher's college and railroad depot, the Normal Station neighborhood is bounded by Goodlett, Park, Highland, and Southern. The Chickasaws originally had a hunting camp on Black Bayou that runs through the area. William F. Eckles bought . . . — — Map (db m87434) HM |
| Near Island Road 1 mile south of A.W. Willis Avenue. |
| | In the 1700s, the western boundary of the British Crown Colony of North Carolina extended, in theory, to the Mississippi River. Much of this was academic, however, and the western Tennessee territory which bordered the river was in fact the property . . . — — Map (db m53732) HM |
| On Firestone Avenue at Tulley Street, on the right when traveling west on Firestone Avenue. |
| | The southwest corner of this mile harness track was here; its long axis ran northeastward. It was developed mainly by C.K.G. Billings. Here Ed Geers brought out many famous horses. Here also, Dan Patch made his record of 1:55Ό, and here occurred the . . . — — Map (db m87930) HM |
| On Stage Road (U.S. 64) at Santa Valley Street on Stage Road. |
| | Named Oak Grove because of its original location in a grove of Oak trees, the history of the church began with a small group of "freed" blacks in 1863. Mary C. and Ella J. Williams of Williams plantation permitted the members to use a parcel of the . . . — — Map (db m88310) HM |
| On Knight Arnold Road at Knight Road, on the left when traveling west on Knight Arnold Road. |
| | Front
Founded in 1871 and organized in 1872, this church is among Shelby County's oldest active African American congregations. Originally known as "Oakville Colored Church", it was organized by former slaves and their families and . . . — — Map (db m87271) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
| | Winding 981 miles to Cairo, Illinois from its Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania head, the Ohio has been an important force in Americas history and its economy. Pioneers made it the highroad to western expansion after the American Revolution. The Ohio . . . — — Map (db m114727) HM |
| Near Barboro Alley at South Center Lane, on the right when traveling west. |
| | In 1883, flames from a store on the north side of Barboro made it across the alley and burned down the city's old opera house, the Greenlaw. — — Map (db m148961) HM |
| On Park Avenue at Hanley Street, on the right when traveling west on Park Avenue. |
| | Orange Mound, developed as a Negro subdivision at the turn of the century, was formerly a 5000 acre plantation owned by John George Deaderick. Bounded by the Southern Railway on the north, Airways on the west, Park on the south, and Goodwyn on the . . . — — Map (db m83993) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Ostrica Lock
Mile 25.2 AHP
This lock connects the river to the Gulf of Mexico through a short channel extending north into Breton Sound. It is used chiefly by fishermen, crew boats, and pleasure craft.
B) Buras, Louisiana . . . — — Map (db m114916) HM |
| | The 342 acre Lea Woods was bought in 1901 as the first project of Memphis Park Commission on advice of Olmsted Brothers, noted landscape and architects. By popular vote it was named for Judge John Overton, a city founder. Naturalistic landscaping . . . — — Map (db m82857) HM |
| On Madison Avenue at Cooper, on the right when traveling east on Madison Avenue. |
| | East Side
in 1969, Overton Square's founders--James D. Robinson, Jr., Ben Woodson, Charles H. Hull, Jr., and Frank Doggrell, III- developed T.G.I Friday's which became the first establishment in the city to sell alcohol by the drink.
The . . . — — Map (db m116680) HM |
| On Vance Avenue at Orleans, on the right when traveling east on Vance Avenue. |
| | In 1946, the Tennessee Baptist Missionary and Educational Convention, a negro religious group, purchased twelve acres of ground and buildings at Vance Avenue and Orleans Street for $375,000 to begin a school. In 1954, Owen College, a two year . . . — — Map (db m107447) HM |
| | A.Palmetto Bend
Mile 326.0 AHP
This bend and the plantation that lay on its bank were named for the Palmetto, a type of palm tree that was utilized by early settlers and found in abundance in this area. The trunks made durable wharf . . . — — Map (db m115158) HM |
| Near Union Avenue (U.S. 70) just west of Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous Alley, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Everyone knows that ducks swim in the Peabody's fountain, but for a short time in the 1930s the fountain also contained baby alligators. During World War II, enlisted men who had nowhere else to stay were allowed to sleep on the floor of the lobby . . . — — Map (db m148910) HM |
| Near Union Avenue (U.S. 70) at Charlie Vergos' Rendezvous Alley. |
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"The Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Hotel and ends on Catfish Row in Vicksburg
If you stand near its fountain in the middle of the lobby, where ducks waddle and turtles drowse, you will see everybody who is anybody in the . . . — — Map (db m148912) HM |
| Near Union Avenue at South B.B. King Boulevard (Tennessee Highway 3), on the right when traveling west. |
| | Designed by Chicago Architect Walter Ahlschlager in 1925, the Peabody was restored by Philip and Jack Belz in 1980. During the restoration, workers removing a basement wall to install a pipe accidentally discovered the hotel's original blueprints . . . — — Map (db m148914) HM |
| | Pee Wee's Saloon was the favorite meeting spot for Memphis musicians in the early 20th century. W.C. Handy used the cigar counter to write out copies of the Beale Street Blues for his band members. One of those songs, written for the 1909 political . . . — — Map (db m9302) HM |
| On Mississippi Boulevard at Walker Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Mississippi Boulevard. |
| | Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Will Stewart, all African-Americans and co-owners of People's Grocery (located at this site), were arrested in connection with a disturbance near their store. Rather than being brought to trial, they were lynched on . . . — — Map (db m116288) HM |
| On Beale Street east of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Phi Beta Sigma
Native Tennessean Abram Langston Taylor, near this spot, 423 Beale Avenue, conceived the idea of establishing an international organization of college and professional men dedicated to “Culture for Service and Service . . . — — Map (db m63343) HM |
| On South Dudley Street 0.1 miles south of Sledge Avenue, on the left when traveling south. |
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This property has been placed on the
National
Register
of Historic
Places
by the
United States Department of the Interior — — Map (db m141307) HM |
| On Lamar Avenue (U.S. 78) at Interstate 240, on the right when traveling west on Lamar Avenue. |
| | Leading to a large roost of the now-extinct messenger pigeon, this road followed partly the present routes of Lauderdale and Marshall Avenues, and of Lamar Boulevard. Before settlement days it was a dry-weather trail used by the Chickasaw Indians. . . . — — Map (db m149039) HM |
| On Jefferson Avenue at 2nd Street, on the right when traveling east on Jefferson Avenue. |
| | Marker Front:
With a brass band, a beauty contest, flowers for the ladies, and balloons for the children Clarence Saunders of Memphis opened the first Piggly Wiggly, America's first completely self-service grocery store, at 79 Jefferson . . . — — Map (db m88646) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue. |
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A) Plaquemine, Louisiana
Mile 208.2 AHP
The settlement that arose at the mouth of the Bayou Plaquemine took as its name the Native American word for the fruit, persimmon. Early settlers traveled on the bayou, but as the Mississippi . . . — — Map (db m114992) HM |
| On Chelsea Avenue 0.2 miles west of North McLean Boulevard, on the right when traveling west. |
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A key part of the rock 'n' roll wave that swept America in the 1950s started in these Quonset huts. R. E. "Buster” Williams, a self-educated engineer, opened Plastic Products in 1949 with equipment he had researched and designed himself. . . . — — Map (db m149041) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Point a La Hache, Louisiana
Mile 45.0 AHP
French explorers named the slight curve in the river bank “Point of the Axe.” It is the end of the Mainline Levee System on the east bank.
B) Magnolia Plantation, Louisiana . . . — — Map (db m114919) HM |
| On Poplar Avenue at North Lauderdale Street, on the right when traveling west on Poplar Avenue. |
| | Poplar Tunes
Calling itself "Memphis' Original Record Shop," Poplar Tunes lived up to its billing. Founders Joe Cuoghi and John Novarese opened the store in 1946, selling records for the retail, wholesale and jukebox trade. Demo records . . . — — Map (db m87025) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue. |
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A) Port Hudson, Louisiana
Mile 256.0 AHP
This settlement began as a trading post and by the time of the U.S. Civil War, it was an important shipping center with both a steamboat landing and a rail line to the east. The Confederates . . . — — Map (db m115001) HM |
| On North Manassas Street 0.1 miles north of Bethel Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | An orphan asylum founded by Sarah Leath was chartered in 1850 and moved to this site in 1856. After surviving the hardships of the Civil War years, the orphanage endured the scourge of the 1873 yellow fever epidemic. Since many children were . . . — — Map (db m148614) HM |
| On North 2nd Street north of Market Street, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Near this spot on January 1. 1851, a mob of 1,200 to 1,500 people lynched an unidentified black man for the murder of John Chester, the Memphis City Recorder. The victim was likely a passenger aboard the SS Winfield Scott. which had ported . . . — — Map (db m148626) HM |
| Near Union Avenue at South Front Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | The Public Promenade was deeded to the City of Memphis by its original proprietors in 1828 for public walking and leisure. It originally included 36 acres along the west side of the Mississippi Row, now Front Street, from Union to Jackson Avenue. — — Map (db m148903) HM |
| On Vance Avenue 0 miles east of 4th, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Founded in 1914 by Robert Stevenson Lewis Sr. and later operated by sons Robert Jr. and Clarence, the family business became committed to improving the quality of life for African-Americans in the community. Among their achievements, in the 1920s . . . — — Map (db m107484) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles from West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A tremendous earthquake struck this region on December 16, 1811, beginning a three-month series of violent quakes that devastated over 40,000 square miles. Named for the largest settlement in the region, the New Madrid earthquakes altered local . . . — — Map (db m114736) HM |
| On North Parkway at University Street, on the right on North Parkway. |
| | Its progenitor was Montgomery Masonic College, founded at Clarksville in 1848. Named Stewart College in 1855, it became a college of the Presbyterian church in 1861 and was incorporated as Southwestern Presbyterian University in 1875. It moved here . . . — — Map (db m87354) HM |
| On East McLemore Avenue just west of Mississippi Boulevard, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Born in 1934, Robert Catron, who later changed his name to Robert Karriem, was a native Memphian. A musician and businessman, he was better known as "Boss Ugly Bob.” In the 1950s he played music with a group called the Beale Streeters, who . . . — — Map (db m149016) HM |
| Near Walker Avenue at Cummings Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | "..The triumph of Memphis as a great city could not be written without an account of the marvelous career of the late R.R. Church, who built a fame on character and left two fortunes. One a great estate as men appraise wealth, and the other heritage . . . — — Map (db m140747) HM |
| On Scott Street at Princeton Street, on the right when traveling north on Scott Street. |
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African Americans formed the Rock of Ages Colored Methodist Episcopal congregation c. 1907. The congregation moved into a new church in 1956, when it became the Christian Methodist Episcopal Church (CME). The name change signaled the . . . — — Map (db m149044) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Rodney Cutoff
Mile 388.0 AHP
Opened in 1936 the Rodney Cutoff bypassed an old river bend and the ghost town that once was the busy river town of Rodney. Over 4,000 people lived in the town of Rodney in the 1850s and its bustling port . . . — — Map (db m115165) HM |
| Near Townes Avenue at Jackson Avenue (Tennessee Route 14), on the left when traveling south. |
| | This rose garden is dedicated to the memory and honor of all veterans. Through the generosity of the local districts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Tipton County Veterans Council, the Junior League Garden Club, the Memphis Rose Society, the . . . — — Map (db m107481) WM |
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Born March 26, 1917, in Cayce, Mississippi, this legendary entertainer known worldwide, began his career in the 1930s with the Rabbit Foot Minstrel Shows. He was the organizer and master of ceremonies of the amateur shows in the . . . — — Map (db m9303) HM |
| On 910 Madison Avenue 0.1 miles west of North Pauline Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Originally Red Elm Park, Russwood Park was home to Memphis professional baseball from 1899 to 1960. Primarily home to the Memphis Chicks, a charter member of the Southern Association, Russwood hosted nearly 70% of all players and managers enshrined . . . — — Map (db m116293) HM |
| On Beale Street east of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | In 1952, Roberta Church became the first black woman in Memphis to be elected to public office and to the Tennessee Republican State Executive Committee. She served as an official in the administrations of Presidents Eisenhower and Nixon. In 1987, . . . — — Map (db m63290) HM |
| On South Main Street at Beale Street, on the right when traveling north on South Main Street. |
| | The first free "colored" school in the city was opened in early 1863 in a barrack building in South Memphis. In 1864 the U.S. Army issued a general order authorizing its officers to help with these schools for the education of freedmen. In 1865 . . . — — Map (db m82858) HM |
| On Walker Avenue just west of Dr. Hollis F. Price Street. |
| | Founded by the American Missionary Association in 1868, Second Congregational Church was originally at 239 Orleans. It was a chapel for LeMoyne Normal Institute. The present church, designed and built by Black artisans, was completed in 1928. In . . . — — Map (db m83841) HM |
| On Poplar Avenue at South Goodlett Street, on the right when traveling east on Poplar Avenue. |
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This church was founded on Dec. 28, 1844, on Front St. near Gayoso. It has since become the parent of ten daughter churches. It erected its first owned building in 1849 at Main and Beale. During the Civil War, Federal troops . . . — — Map (db m63365) HM |
| On Poplar Avenue (U.S. 72) east of Interstate 240, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Shelby County Established 1819; named in honor of ISAAC SHELBY who, along with Andrew Jackson, was appointed United States Commissioner; together they arranged the purchase of the Western District from the Chickasaw Indian Nation . . . — — Map (db m82859) HM |
| On Washington Avenue west of North B.B. King Boulevard, on the right when traveling west. |
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Shelby County Archives and Hall of Records
After the Shelby County criminal courts and jail moved from here in 1982, this National Register Historic District building stood empty until 1998, when extensive renovations were completed and . . . — — Map (db m116295) HM |
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