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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee and Vicinity
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| | A. Fort Adams, Mississippi
Mile 311.9 AHP
This high bluff was first named Davion’s Rock, for a French priest who lived here with the Tunica Indians in the early 1700’s. It was later called Loftus Heights, for a British Major Loftus whose . . . — — Map (db m115004) HM |
| On North Main Street just from A.W. Willis Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Hereabouts, in 1795, the Spanish built Fort San Fernando de Barrancas. It was here that Don Miguel Gayoso De Lamos, first governor, hoisted the flag of Spain for the first time, and took possession of the territory in the name of his sovereign. — — Map (db m148649) HM |
| On North Main Street at A.W. Willis, on the right when traveling south on North Main Street. Reported permanently removed. |
| | Louisiana's lieutenant governor, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, erected Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas near this site in May of 1795. He named the structure for Spain's crown prince and future king, Ferdinand VII. Conforming to Pinckney's Treaty, . . . — — Map (db m120798) HM |
| Near Island Drive 1 mile south of A.W. Willis Avenue. |
| | France was the first nation to settle and develop the Lower Mississippi. Although they governed it for only 80 years, the French left a lasting impression on the river and its valley.
In 1673, Louis Jolliet, a French trader, and Father Jacques . . . — — Map (db m53731) HM |
| On Wilson Street at Kerr Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Wilson Street. |
| | Born in Memphis in 1867, G.P. Hamilton was the author of The Bright Side of Memphis, one of the earliest books on black residents of Memphis. In 1892 Hamilton, an honors graduate of LeMoyne, was appointed principal of Kortrecht, the first . . . — — Map (db m149022) HM |
| Near Getwell Road 0.1 miles south of Park. |
| | A U.S. Army hospital on this site treated more than 44,000 combat veterans during World War II. Opened Jan. 23, 1943, it was named for the late Brig. Gen. James M. Kennedy, distinguished Army surgeon and veteran of both the Spanish-American War and . . . — — Map (db m84660) HM |
| On Beale Street 0.2 miles west of S. Lauderdale Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Political, business and civic leader, Lee was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Expeditionary Force. Heroic in W.W.I, he was an active black combat officer. An insurance executive and capitalist, Lee was leader of the Lincoln League and Old Guard . . . — — Map (db m55501) HM |
| Near Elvis Presley Boulevard (U.S. 51) south of Winchester Road, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Graceland has been placed on the National Register of Historical Places by the United States Department of the Interior. Built 1939. — — Map (db m138) HM |
| On Peabody Ave. at Lemaster Street, on the left when traveling east on Peabody Ave.. |
| | St. Luke's Church, founded in 1894 at Idlewild and Union, moved to this location in 1912 where the Right Rev. Thomas F. Gailor, 3rd Bishop of Tennessee, laid the church's cornerstone. Grace Church, founded in 1850 as the first mission church of . . . — — Map (db m84423) HM |
| Near Island Drive just south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Grand Gulf, Mississippi
Mile 407.0 AHP
A bluff jutting into the river at the old mouth of the Big Black River created perilous whirlpools that made Grand Gulf notorious among early flatboatmen. The town of Grand Gulf was established . . . — — Map (db m115164) HM |
| | A. Grand Lake Cutoff
Mile 511.0 AHP
An oxbow lake two miles west of the river, Grand Lake, was removed from the channel by this natural cutoff in the 1700’s. The small river town of Princeton grew up on the west bank, with a busy landing. . . . — — Map (db m115524) HM |
| Near Island Road 1 mile from A.W. Willis Avenue. |
| | As early as the 1730's, a few British traders lived among the Chickasaw in this area, but Great Britain's brief ascendancy on the Lower Mississippi did not began until 1763. In that year, the British defeated France in the Seven Years' War and took . . . — — Map (db m82852) HM |
| Near South 2nd Street (State Highway 14) at Monroe Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | In 1929, the architects of the National Bank of Commerce wanted to convey the strength of the bank by basing their design on ancient Greek temples. It's built according to the "Golden Section" rule, meaning that its width to length ratio is almost . . . — — Map (db m148958) HM |
| On Madison Avenue just from Cooper Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Leighnora Elisabeth Griffin, pictured here in the 1930s, lived at 2118 Madison Avenue from 1919 until her death at age 89. She once turned down an offer price of $500,000 to purchase the home during the mid-70's heyday of Overton Square . . . — — Map (db m84680) HM |
| Near South 2nd Street (State Highway 3) at South Court Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | August 2nd, 1885: A riot broke out after police arrested 16-year-old Hattie Manely of Xenia, Ohio. Manely was an African-American who didn't realize she was committing a crime when she sat in a chair in Court Square vacated by a white man. — — Map (db m148971) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Head of Passes
Mile 0.0 AHP
The Mississippi River officially ends here, 954 miles from Cairo, Illinois. At this point, the stream divides into three channels, Pass a Louture, South Pass, and Southern Pass. They each branch into . . . — — Map (db m114914) HM |
| Near Cooper Street. Reported missing. |
| | Joseph B. Heiskell obtained a farm surrounding this location about 1867. He was Chairman of Code Commission of 1858 establishing the first official Code of Tennessee, member of the First Confederate Congress 1862, member of Convention of 1870 . . . — — Map (db m87996) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue. |
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A) Hog Point, Louisiana
Mile 298.2 AHP
The channel off Hog Point, in the middle of Raccourci Cutoff, has long been one of the most troublesome stretches on the lower river. Constant dredging is required to keep the channel open. . . . — — Map (db m115003) HM |
| On Walker Avenue at Dr. Hollis F. Price Avenue, on the right when traveling west on Walker Avenue. |
| | Hollis Price was the first African-American president of LeMoyne College. In 1968, he guided the college's merger with Owen Junior College. Price was the president of the college for 27 years and upon his retirement became president emeritus. He was . . . — — Map (db m83826) HM |
| | Side A Established by Henry A. Hooks, Sr. and his brother Robert B. Hooks, Hooks Brothers Photography Studio was the second oldest continuously operating black business in Memphis.
Located during its early years at 164 Beale Street, it . . . — — Map (db m32512) HM |
| On North Manassas Street at Orphanage Avenue, on the right when traveling south on North Manassas Street. |
| | Within two months of graduation, Presley recorded songs at Memphis Recording Service. The following year he recorded at Sun Records, along with Carl Perkins (1932-1998), Johnny Cash (1932-2003), and Jerry Lee Lewis (born 1935). After achieving . . . — — Map (db m148624) HM |
| On Union Avenue 0.1 miles east of Barksdale Street., on the right when traveling east. |
| | Founded in 1902 by Mary Grimes Hutchison as a college preparatory school for girls, it was the first independent school in Memphis accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Secondary Schools. In 1925 Hutchison moved to the Union Avenue . . . — — Map (db m87083) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Hymelia Crevasse
Mile 131.3 AHP
In 1903, a 200-foot gap opened in the levee at Hymelia Plantation. One thousand laborers were put to work constructing a sandbag fill but a runaway barge crashed into the repairs and destroyed them. . . . — — Map (db m114926) HM |
| On Beale Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Ida B. Wells crusaded against lynchings in Memphis and the South. In 1892 while editor of the Memphis Free Speech, located in this vicinity, she wrote of the lynching of three Black businessmen. As a result, her newspaper office was destroyed . . . — — Map (db m9306) HM |
| On South Evergreen Street just north of Union Avenue (U.S. 64/79), on the left when traveling north. |
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A series of prayer meetings organized by James S. Davant in 1890 resulted in a Presbyterian Church organized in the suburb of Idlewild. From Peabody Avenue the congregation moved to the southwest corner of Union Avenue and McLean Boulevard, then . . . — — Map (db m149035) HM |
| Near Townes Avenue at Jackson Avenue (Tennessee Route 14), on the left when traveling east. |
| | When President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to defend the life of our imperiled nation, these valiant sons of Illinois together with other heroes, offered their lives with patriotism unsurpassed.
With unflinching bravery they fought . . . — — Map (db m61800) WM |
| On N. Manassas Street just from Wells Ave., on the right when traveling south. |
| | In the 1970s Hayes was a multiple gold and platinum-selling recording star. His recording of "Shaft" won an Oscar, Golden Globe, and three Grammy awards. He wrote or co-wrote over 200 songs for Stax Records including "Hold On, I'm Coming" and "Soul . . . — — Map (db m87970) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Island No. 20
Mile 8290 AHP
The wandering geography of Island No. 20 illustrates the Mississippi River's erratic nature. Navigation charts of 1801 show the island lying near the west bank. Later, the river moved and placed the . . . — — Map (db m114737) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Island No. 5 (Wolf Island)
Mile 933.0 AHP
Kentucky and Missouri fought all the way to the U. S. Supreme Court for possession of Wolf Island. Missouri’s attorneys presented an array of old maps and navigation charts that showed the . . . — — Map (db m114730) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Islands No. 2, 3, and 4
Mile 940.5 AHP
Zadok Cramer first numbered the islands of the Lower Mississippi River in his 1801 book, The Navigator. The number system allowed boatmen to exchange river information without becoming . . . — — Map (db m114729) HM |
| On Beale Street at Danny Thomas (U.S. 51), on the right when traveling east on Beale Street. |
| | The City of Memphis recognizes the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees AFL-CIO Local 1733 as the designated representative for the Division of Public Works for the purpose of negotiations on wages hours and conditions of . . . — — Map (db m107458) HM |
| Near Walker Avenue 0.2 miles from Patterson. |
| | Born at Statonville, Tennessee, J. Millard "Jack" Smith was president of Memphis State College from 1946 until 1960 and was the first alumnus of the college to become president. Following World War II, he guided the institution through an era of . . . — — Map (db m86688) HM |
| | The 35th mayor of Memphis, 1906-1910. Author of "The Chickasaw Nation". He shared a legal office on the 11th floor of the exchange building, overlooking Court Square, with his younger brother Walter Malone. Judge of the second circuit court of . . . — — Map (db m74800) HM |
| On Court Avenue at Bellevue Boulevard, on the right when traveling east on Court Avenue. |
| | The Negro Baptist Association founded the Jane Terrell Baptist Hospital at 698 Williams in 1909 under the leadership of Dr. C.A. Terrell. At his death, it was permanently renamed Terrell Memorial Hospital under the leadership of Dr. N. M. Watson. By . . . — — Map (db m86566) HM |
| On North Front Street south of Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | (Front):Jefferson Davis
President of the Confederate States of America 1861 - 1865
Before the War Between the States, he served with distinction as a United States Congressman and twice as a United States Senator. He also served as . . . — — Map (db m51441) HM |
| | On the tragic day of September 12, 1953, John Weatherall gave his life in dedication to his job at Peabody Elementary School. WWI Veteran, devoted family man and custodian of Peabody Elementary, John Weatherall became aware of a fire at the school . . . — — Map (db m84836) HM |
| On Union Avenue east of South Front Street. |
| | Author John Grisham immortalized downtown Memphis, particularly Front Street, in his novel The Firm. In 1993, he became the first author to have four books on the best seller list at the same time. Rooted deeply in the South's rich literary . . . — — Map (db m116357) HM |
| On Cooper Street at Walker Avenue, on the left when traveling north on Cooper Street. |
| | Johnny Cash's First Performance
The singer-songwriter who became know as "The Man in Black," Johnny Cash launched his music career on this site in December 1954. Working as a door-to-door appliance salesman, Cash teamed up with guitarist . . . — — Map (db m102825) HM |
| On Meagher Street at Dunkley Avenue, on the right when traveling north on Meagher Street. |
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Inside his home here at 968 Meagher, Joe Warren, a city sanitation worker, hosted strategy meetings with fellow workers in 1968 to plan what would become a historic strike against the City of Memphis. The strike would protest the firing of 33 . . . — — Map (db m149042) HM |
| On Poplar Avenue 0.2 miles east of N. Main Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | After a noted legal and legislative career in Mississippi, Settle came to Memphis in 1885. During the late 1880s, he served as Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Court of Shelby County, an appointment unprecedented for an African-American at . . . — — Map (db m82853) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles from West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Junior Crevasse
Mile 55.0 AHP
During the great flood of April 1927, the steamship Inspector was fought erratic currents downstream past the Junior Plantation. The pilot lost control and the boat’s bow crashed into the levee. . . . — — Map (db m114920) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Kenner, Louisiana
Mile 113.0 AHP
This community grew up on a sugar plantation owned by the Kenner family and became a railroad stop in the antebellum years. During the U.S. Civil War, Union troops were sent to Kenner to destroy the . . . — — Map (db m114924) HM |
| 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 1800’s. 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 |
| | Front
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 Memphis’s 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 ferryboat’s 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 1800’s 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 1700’s 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 Mississippi’s 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 1:55¼, 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 |
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