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Historical Markers and War Memorials in Memphis
Memphis, Tennessee and Vicinity
▶ Shelby County (407) ▶ Fayette County (16) ▶ Tipton County (17) ▶ Crittenden County, Arkansas (13) ▶ Mississippi County, Arkansas (32) ▶ DeSoto County, Mississippi (9) ▶ Marshall County, Mississippi (15)
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GEOGRAPHIC SORT
| | This property has been placed on the National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior. — — Map (db m74802) HM |
| On Adams Street at Alley Between N. Third and N. Fourth, on the right when traveling east on Adams Street. |
| | On June 6, 1862 Memphis surrendered to Federal gunboats. The only resistance by citizens occurred here as a shot was fired at the soldiers hoisting the U.S. flag over the post office. — — Map (db m84464) HM |
| On G.E. Patterson Avenue at South Second Street, on the right when traveling west on G.E. Patterson Avenue. |
| | On May 1, 2 and 3, 1866, mobs of white men
led by law enforcement attacked black people
in the areas near South St. (aka Calhoun & G.E.
Patterson). By the end of the attack, the mobs
had killed an estimated 46 black people; raped
several . . . — — Map (db m117114) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) American Cutoff Mile
Mile 526.5 AHP
In the flood of 1858, the Mississippi cut through the neck of American Bend, and the abandoned river bed was renamed Lake Lee. The first steamboat to try to navigate the American Cutoff was the . . . — — Map (db m115525) HM |
| On Thomas Street (U.S. 51) at Chelsea Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Thomas Street. |
| | American Studios
American Studios, a cornerstone of the explosive Memphis music industry in the 1960s, stood on this site. Opened in 1962, American featured record producer Chips Moman and musicians known as The 827 Thomas Štreet Band, later . . . — — Map (db m148621) HM |
| On Vinton at Bellevue (U.S. 51), on the right when traveling west on Vinton. |
| | Developed as an exclusive neighborhood in 1903 by Brinkley Snowden and T. O. Vinton, Annesdale Park was the first subdivision in the South planned upon metropolitan lines. It was considered an important display of confidence in the city's future. . . . — — Map (db m83793) HM |
| Near Monroe Avenue east of South Front Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The Cotton Growers Association Building, built in 1936, was used for years in advertisements for the Portland Cement Association as an example of the outstanding designs that could be achieved with concrete construction. — — Map (db m148957) HM |
| | The Mississippi’s southernmost major tributary, the Arkansas, is born from melting snow on the eastern slopes of the Continental Divide near Leadville, Colorado. Its 1,450-mile course drains 160,500 square miles in five states.
Despite dramatic . . . — — Map (db m115008) HM |
| On Court Avenue just west of North Danny Thomas Boulevard (U.S. 51), on the right when traveling west. |
| | In 1887 the Bohlen-Huse Ice Co. struck, at a depth of 354 feet, artesian water of such purity and abundance it immediately became the city supply, one of the country's finest. In 1903 the wells became municipally owned. — — Map (db m148964) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Ashbrook Cutoff
Mile 549.0 AHP
Rowdy Bend was the first of four consecutive loops, in this stretch of the river that pilots called the “Greenville Bends.” Rowdy Bend kept getting longer despite efforts to stabilize it, and . . . — — Map (db m115526) HM |
| On Barboro Alley at South Main Street, on the right when traveling west on Barboro Alley. |
| | Italian immigrant Anthony Sebastian Barboro operated a wholesale grocery in this building in the late 1800s. His company was still in business in 2003. — — Map (db m148962) HM |
| On Madison Avenue just east of South B.B. King Boulevard, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Baseball came to Memphis in 1885, but didn't last long because city law prevented games from being played on Sundays. Scores were transmitted to local cigar stores and hotel lobbies by telegraph. — — Map (db m148915) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue. |
| | Baton Rouge is the capital of Louisiana... going navigation on the Mississippi River. ...gas fields in Louisiana, Texas, and Oklahoma... a major processing and transportation... industry.
The French built the first fort here in 1819. They . . . — — Map (db m114996) HM |
| | 392 Beale Avenue
"There were two types of
culture, I guess you could
say, on Beale Street.
There were the sinners
and there were the saved.
You had your professional
people, your doctors and
business folk. Then you
had those who . . . — — Map (db m107601) HM |
| On Beale Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | First there was a slope of woodland that met the Mississippi River. Chickasaw Indians hunted there until the early 19th century. Then there was Beale Street. It began as the main road of South Memphis and by 1850, when that separate town was . . . — — Map (db m108221) HM |
| | During the great wave of
immigration around the turn of
the century, Jews, Italians,
Greeks and Chinese came to
Beale Street to pursue their
fortunes. They established
pawnshops, clothing stores,
restaurants, produce stands, . . . — — Map (db m107598) HM |
| | "Saturday night was the fabulous
night on Beale street. Our
parents kept the store opened
late. We were children; we used
to sit on little chairs outside the
store and watch. If we got sleepy,
they would put us to sleep on a
rack of . . . — — Map (db m107596) HM |
| On Beale Street just east of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| |
Founded in the late 1840s by Rev. Morris Henderson and four other blacks, Beale Street Baptist Church is the oldest, continuous Negro congregation in Memphis. Withdrawing from the First Baptist Church, the founders and others met in an old . . . — — Map (db m148899) HM |
| | Has been designated a Registered National Historic Landmark.
Under the provisions of the Historic Sites Act of August 21, 1935 this site possesses exceptional value in commemorating and illustrating the history of the United States.
U.S. . . . — — Map (db m47904) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Belle Chasse, Louisiana
Mile 75.9 AHP
Belle Chasse Plantation was the home of Judah P. Benjamin, often called “the brains of the Confederate government.” He served as Attorney General Secretary of War and Secretary of . . . — — Map (db m114921) HM |
| On Walker Avenue at Porter Street, on the left when traveling east on Walker Avenue. |
| | Described as the best-educated minister in all of Memphis in 1880 was a black man, the Rev. Benjamin A. Imes, who was a noted city leader. Imes held two degrees from Oberlin College and was involved with an influential group that pushed for the . . . — — Map (db m84445) HM |
| On Beale Street, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Benjamin F. Booth was one of Memphis' earliest and most distinguished African-American lawyers. Starting in 1886, he practiced law for more than 54 years. In 1905, he challenged Tennessee's law authorizing the segregation of black and white . . . — — Map (db m139) HM |
| On Angelus Street just north of Madison Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Here was the farm of the Tillman Bettis family on the Memphis bluff after the 1818 treaty, even before the town was laid off. Mary Bettis was the first child born in the new settlement. — — Map (db m83844) HM |
| On Lucy Street, on the left when traveling east on Lucy Street. |
| | Aretha Franklin was born in this house on March 25, 1942, to Baptist Bishop C.L. and Barbara Franklin. Ms. Franklin is an American singer, songwriter and musician. She began her career as a child singing gospel at her father's church, New Salem . . . — — Map (db m106487) HM |
| On Mason Street at McEwen Place, on the left when traveling south on Mason Street. |
| | Bishop C.H. Mason founded the Church of God in Christ (COGIC) in the late 1890s. Born a slave near Bartlett, Tennessee, Mason served as Senior Bishop of the denomination from 1907 until his death in 1961. By the time of his death, COGIC had become . . . — — Map (db m89000) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Bonnet Carre Spillway
Mile 128.0 AHP
Completed in 1935, the Bonnet Carre Spillway protects New Orleans, LA and the levees around it by diverting flood waters into Lake Pontchartrain. The one and a half mile long concrete structure . . . — — Map (db m114925) HM |
| On Lauderdale at East Georgia Ave., on the left when traveling north on Lauderdale. |
| | From a two-room, two-teacher structure known as Clay Street School, Booker T. Washington High School evolved as the first public high school for black students in Memphis. About 1911, the school was relocated to an abandoned building on Webster . . . — — Map (db m89014) HM |
| On Raleigh Lagrange Road 0.3 miles from Lagrange Hills, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Bridgewater School, formerly on this site, was founded in 1911 and exited continuously at this site until 1960. In 1921, with help from the community, the Shelby County school board, and the Rosenwald Fund, the Rosenwald school concept was . . . — — Map (db m118471) HM |
| Near Monroe Avenue just west of South Main Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Brodnax Jewelers, the original occupant of the Brodnax Building, at one time sold more Rolex watches than any other retailer in the world. When this building was built in 1916 as their headquarters, their mail-order business claimed to sell more . . . — — Map (db m148949) HM |
| On North 2nd Street north of Chelsea Avenue, on the right when traveling north. |
| | In the years immediately preceding the Civil War, Jacob Burkle operated the Memphis Stockyards on this site. Herdsmen seeking shelter and respite at Chelsea House found the stockyards a convenient custody station for their livestock. Folklore . . . — — Map (db m148611) HM |
| Near Monroe Avenue east of South Center Lane, on the left when traveling east. |
| | The "B-M-C" over the door of this 1910 building stood for the Business Men's Club, which became the Chamber of Commerce in 1913. — — Map (db m148948) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
| |
Cairo's position at the confluence of the Upper Mississippi and Ohio made it an important river and rail junction in the steamboat era. Changes in America's shipping patterns reduced its role in the 20th Century but it remains an active port and . . . — — Map (db m114728) HM |
| On Elvis Presley (Bellevue) Boulevard (U.S. 51), on the right when traveling south. |
| | Consecrated in 1867 to serve the booming populations of the Catholic Irish, Germans and Italians, Calvary became the second Catholic Cemetery in Shelby County. Msgr. Martin Riordan, V.G., of St. Patrick Parish, was a leading proponent and advocate . . . — — Map (db m19032) HM |
| On North Second Street at Adams Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Second Street. |
| | The oldest public building in Memphis and the first Episcopal Church in Shelby County. Organized August 6, 1832 by the Reverend Thomas Wright.
The church house started 1838 was consecrated May 12, 1844 by the Right Reverend James Hervey Otey, first . . . — — Map (db m32515) HM |
| On Madison Avenue 0 miles east of Dunlap, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The Willis C. Campbell Clinic opened at this site on December 26, 1920. Originating as a one-story building, it housed a waiting room, business office, eight examining rooms, the physical therapy department, and a brace shop. Several years later, . . . — — Map (db m136490) HM |
| Near North Front Street south of Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | Capt. J. Harvey Mathes
37th. Tenn. C.S.A. — — Map (db m51442) HM |
| Near South Dudley Street, on the right. |
| | He fought for the Confederacy and with Quantrell's Raiders. After the war he rode with Jesse and Frank James and Cole Younger. Over 100 years ago a $50,000 reward was offered for him dead or alive. Since they could not capture him, he was later . . . — — Map (db m84572) HM |
| On Front Street at Poplar Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Front Street. |
| | From a station located on this site the night of Apr. 29. 1900, John Luther Jones, replacing the regularly detailed engineer, took out engine 382, pulling the Illinois Central “Cannonball.” Driving into a blocked switch at Vaughn, Miss., . . . — — Map (db m6862) HM |
| On S. Belvedere Blvd. 0 miles from Peabody Ave/, on the left when traveling south. |
| | By 1900, Memphis's growth had pushed the city limits east of the district's 511 acres, originally settled in 1830 by Solomon Rozelle. With its convenient access to downtown via the new trolley lines, Central Gardens underwent intensive . . . — — Map (db m87367) HM |
| On South Parkway East at Pillow Street, in the median on South Parkway East. |
| | Chew C. Sawyer was a mid-twentieth century African-American entrepreneur. He founded Sawyer Realty Company, which later became Cornette Realty; Arnette Construction Company; Future Insurance Agency; and Sawyer Rental Agency. In 1956, Sawyer founded . . . — — Map (db m86448) HM |
| On North Danny Thomas Boulevard (U.S. 51) at Adams Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Danny Thomas Boulevard. |
| | The main trail of the Chickasaws from their towns in Pontotoc, Miss., here reached the Bayou Gayoso after following roughly the line of Highway 78, Lamar Boulevard, and Marshall Street. — — Map (db m63286) HM |
| On Beale Street just west of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Chop Suey Café
Chop Suey is actually an American dish created by early Chinese immigrants in the 1800s for gold miners in California. It is a stir-fried mixture of vegetables and meat in a starchy soy sauce served over rice. An instant success, . . . — — Map (db m147552) HM |
| On Adams Avenue just west of North Neely Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | At this site, on November 17, 1871, the Christian Brothers purchased what was the Memphis Female College. Brother Maurelian, who served as the first president of Christian Brothers College, along with three other Brothers and one layman, opened . . . — — Map (db m148989) HM |
| On Walnut Grove Road at Briarview Street, on the right when traveling west on Walnut Grove Road. |
| |
Christian Brothers High School
Christian Brothers High School, the oldest high school for boys in Memphis, opened November 21, 1871 as the secondary department of Christian Brothers College at 612 Adams Avenue. CBC was established by the . . . — — Map (db m63274) HM |
| On Beale Street east of South 4th Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | At this location Church Park and Auditorium was established in 1899 by Robert R. Church Sr., a Memphis business man and former slave, to provide recreational facilities for members of his race who had no other place to meet. Many famous Americans, . . . — — Map (db m82845) HM |
| On Beale Street 0.1 miles east of 4th Street, on the left when traveling west. |
| | Established in 1899, Church's park and auditorium was the only such facility in the United States owned entirely by a black man and conducted in the interest of black people.
Standard admission to the auditorium was 15˘ seating capacity was 2200, . . . — — Map (db m107386) HM |
| On North Second Street at Madison Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Second Street. |
| | After the fall of Nashville Governor Isham Harris convened the Tennessee Legislature on this site February 20-March 20, 1862. The state archives were also stored here. — — Map (db m116300) HM |
| On Union Avenue west of South Front Avenue. |
| | The Woolen Building was built with bricks made on-site in the 1840s. Federal troops later used its basement as a hospital during the Civil War. It is the oldest commercial building in Memphis. — — Map (db m116721) HM |
| On Riverside Drive south of Jefferson Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In 1860, Memphis had Tennessee's largest cotton and slave markets and was a strategic Mississippi River gateway. The naval battle of Memphis in June 1862 took place as thousands of residents watched nine Union vessels defeat eight Confederate ships. . . . — — Map (db m55313) HM |
| | A.Claiborne Landing
Mile 188.3 AHP
This was the plantation home of William C.C. Claiborne. At the age of 21, Claiborne helped write a constitution for the new state of Tennessee and five years later President Jefferson appointed him . . . — — Map (db m114995) HM |
| | Clarence Saunders, whose self-service groceries were followed by modern supermarkets, started construction of this building for his home in 1922. It was incomplete when he lost an epic Stock Exchange battle. Developers who bought the grounds gave . . . — — Map (db m74831) HM |
| On Hernando Street just south of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Avenue (U.S. 78), on the left when traveling south. |
| | This building. designed by architects
Long & Kees with E. C. Jones supervising, was dedicated to the worship
of God on Jan. 1, 1893. It was the second home of Second Presbyterian
Church (organized Dec. 28, 1844)
until sold to the AME Church in . . . — — Map (db m148963) HM |
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There were several boat landings in this general area during the nineteenth century. An 1827 drawing shows a public landing approximately on-half mile north of this spot, but changes in the "batture" or built-up bank caused by the river moved the . . . — — Map (db m88262) HM |
| Near Union Avenue at Wagner Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The Cobblestones that line the river landing once stretched all the way to Front Street, from Beale Street north to Court Avenue. The cobblestones were installed between 1859-1881 and are still intact underneath the pavement on Union Avenue. — — Map (db m148901) HM |
| On Washington Avenue at North Orleans Street, on the right when traveling west on Washington Avenue. |
| | A “Daughter” of Wesley Chapel (later, the First United Methodist Church), Collins Chapel was organized in 1841 and purchased this site in 1859. Names for its first pastor, J. T. C. Collins, it predates the formation of the CME . . . — — Map (db m63368) HM |
| | Barges first appeared on the Mississippi River after the U. S. Civil War, as river interest tried to compete with the railroads’ growing domination. The railroads won this transportation duel and tows practically disappeared from the river until WWI . . . — — Map (db m115159) HM |
| On Front Street south of Jefferson Ave., on the right when traveling south. |
| | This bluff was fortified by Gen. Pillow May 1862. Thirty seven companies were equipped here for the Confederate service. The Confederate Ram, Arkansas, one of the first ironclad battleships in the Navy, was built and partially armored here, but . . . — — Map (db m82848) HM |
| Near North Front Street at Jefferson Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Opened in 1906 as part of the Memphis Park and Parkway System, Confederate Park commemorates the Battle of Memphis. When Confederate forces retreated to Mississippi after the Battle of Shiloh in April 1862, unfortified Memphis became vulnerable to . . . — — Map (db m82849) HM |
| Near South Dudley Street when traveling south. |
| | Confederate Soldiers Rest is located in the Fowler Section of Historic Elmwood Cemetery. Over 1000 Confederate Soldiers and Veterans are buried here. An article in The Memphis Daily Appeal on 27 June 1861 stated that this plot was dedicated to the . . . — — Map (db m51628) HM |
| | When Southern states seceded from the Union in 1861, the Mississippi River became not only a vital commercial waterway, but also a strategic route through the heart of the Confederacy. The river proved to be the South's greatest weakness. At the . . . — — Map (db m82850) HM |
| On Main Street at Exchange Street, on the right when traveling south on Main Street. |
| | Jews have been part of Tennessee’s economic, social and political life since the late 18th century. Congregation Children of Israel, chartered by the State of Tennessee, March 2, 1854, rented and eventually purchased a building near this site at . . . — — Map (db m84648) HM |
| Near Union Avenue at South Front Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The Memphis Cotton Exchange, was first organized in 1873 and is still operating today, though cotton trading is now done by computers. In the early 1950s a seat on the Exchange could cost a new member $17,000. Memphis was the largest spot cotton . . . — — Map (db m116725) HM |
| On North 2nd Street (State Highway 14) at Court Avenue, on the right when traveling south on North 2nd Street. |
| | Court Square was almost sold to developers in the 1870s to pay back debts incurred in the yellow fever epidemics. It was almost sold again in the early 1900s for a skyscraper, and still again in the 1940s for parking. — — Map (db m148966) HM |
| On Peabody Avenue just west of South Rembert Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Edward Hull Crump, Memphis political leader for half a century, constructed this residence for his family and himself in 1909. The landscaping was his constant pride until his death here on October 16, 1954. — — Map (db m149033) HM |
| On Poplar Avenue (U.S. 72) at Oakhaven Road, on the left when traveling east on Poplar Avenue. |
| | A unique cave was constructed by Memoral Park founder E. Clovis Hinds and Mexican artist Diońicio Rodriguez in 1935-38. Natural rock and quartz crystal collected from the Ozarks form the background for nine scenes from the life of Christ. The cave . . . — — Map (db m88312) HM |
| On North Main Street at South Court Avenue, on the right when traveling north on North Main Street. |
| | The D.T. Porter Building was Memphis’ first skyscraper and the tallest building south of St. Louis when completed in 1895. Some city officials believed a building that tall would blow over in a strong wind. Visitors paid 10 cents to ride one of the . . . — — Map (db m148974) HM |
| On Beale Street just east of South November 6th Street, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Thanks to entertainer Danny Thomas, who founded St. Jude Childrens Research Hospital in Memphis, this road bears the name Beale Street. Created as an avenue in 1841, locals began calling it Beale Street after the African-American blues legend W.C. . . . — — Map (db m154265) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Davis Island, Mississippi
Mile 415.0 AHP
A large bend once curved around this land which the first settlers name Palmyra. Jefferson Davis established his Briercliffe Plantation here in 1835, next to his brother Joseph’s Hurricane . . . — — Map (db m115167) HM |
| On Park Avenue at Raymond Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Park Avenue. |
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George Michael Deaderick in 1807 established and was president of the Nashville Bank, the first bank in the state. His son, John G. Deaderick, owned 5,000 acres of land, a portion of which was passed down to his son, William Pitt Deaderick, and . . . — — Map (db m149024) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue when traveling south. |
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A) Donaldson Point, Missouri
Mile 905.3 AHP
Union forces dug a canal across Donaldson Point in 1862 hoping to use it to bypass Confederate batteries at Island No. 10. The canal proved to be too shallow, but the rebels scuttled the . . . — — Map (db m114731) HM |
| Near Island Drive 0.8 miles south of West A.W. Willis Avenue. |
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A) Donaldsonville, Louisiana
Mile 175.0 AHP
A trading post was established where Bayou Lafourche met the river in 1750, and a small community grew up around it. Most of the settlers were French, but the town was named . . . — — Map (db m114994) HM |
| On Mississippi Boulevard at Edith Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Mississippi Boulevard. |
| | In 1923, Dr. J.E. Walker co-founded and was the first president of Universal Life Insurance Company, established in Memphis. A physician by training, he helped organize the old Memphis Negro Chamber of Commerce in 1926. Walker served as president of . . . — — Map (db m116287) HM |
| On Jackson Ave (Tennessee Route 14) at Villa on Jackson Ave. |
| | Sunday school held in a schoolhouse led to the formation of Eastland Presbyterian Church November 11, 1906 with Dr. W.H. Gragg, Sr., E.H. Porter and Captain T.H. Savage, Elders. Dr. Gragg secured the lumber for the original frame building from the . . . — — Map (db m88498) HM |
| On Dr Hollis F Price Street at Walker Ave., on the right when traveling north on Dr Hollis F Price Street. |
| | In 1870, Edward Shaw became the first Memphis black to run for U.S. Congress. Though he did not win, he was active in politics, serving on the County Commission, the City Council, and as Wharfmaster in the 1870s. In 1875, Shaw was editor of a black . . . — — Map (db m121433) HM |
| Near North Front Street at Court Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | Born in Bolivar, Elizabeth Meriwether spent much of her life in Memphis. A noted author, her more famous works include The Master of Red Leaf, Black and White, and Recollections of 92 Years. Mrs. Meriwether toured many states lecturing in support of . . . — — Map (db m55308) HM |
| Near South Dudley Street 0.5 miles south of E.H. Crump Boulevard (U.S. 78), on the left. |
| | Elmwood Cemetery was established on August 28, 1852. Buried here are Memphis pioneer families: 14 Confederate generals; victims of the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878; Governors Isham G. Harris and James C. Jones; U.S. Senators Kenneth D. McKellar, . . . — — Map (db m21334) HM |
| Near Elvis Presley Boulevard (U.S. 51), on the left when traveling south. |
| | Elvis Presley was born in Tupelo, Mississippi, on January 8, 1935, the son of Vernon and Gladys Presley. He moved to Memphis in 1948. Soon after signing a contract with Sun Records in 1954 he achieved tremendous popularity. His musical and acting . . . — — Map (db m9509) HM |
| On Union Avenue (U.S. 51/64) at Marshall Avenue, on the left when traveling east on Union Avenue. |
| | Front In July 1954 Sun Records released Elvis Presley's first recording. That record, and Elvis' four that followed on the Sun label, changed popular music. Elvis developed an innovative and different sound combining blues, gospel, and . . . — — Map (db m37261) HM |
| On West Brooks Road 0 miles from Ford Road, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Ernest C. Withers (1922-2007) began his career as a photographer in the U. S. Army during World War II. Upon leaving the military, he opened a commercial photography studio and worked as a freelance photojournalist for Black newspapers and magazines . . . — — Map (db m114545) HM |
| On Poplar Avenue (U.S. 72) at South Perkins Road, on the left when traveling east on Poplar Avenue. |
| | Side 1:
Organized October 18, 1850 on two acres of land donated by Col. Eppy White, using the Greek word "Eudora" signifying "good gift" as its name, this church met in a log schoolhouse until the congregation's first structure was erected . . . — — Map (db m83572) HM |
| Near Poplar Ave. (U.S. 72) at Perkins Road. |
| | Organized October 18, 1850 on two acres donated by Col. Eppy White, the church met in a log schoolhouse until the first building was erected in 1851. The first pastor was J.B. Canada. A larger building completed in 1858 was used as a Federal . . . — — Map (db m132039) HM |
| On Adams Avenue, on the right when traveling west. |
| | Born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, 1798: immigrated to the United States, 1828;
settled in Memphis, 1833.
His home was the scene of three important religious occasions in Memphis:
first Catholic mass, 1839;
first Catholic marriage, 1840; . . . — — Map (db m32518) HM |
| On North Lane at Lyndale Avenue, on the left when traveling north on North Lane. |
| | Welcome to Fargason Fields.
Conveyed to the college in 1922
by John T. Fargason and his sister
Mary Fargason Falls,
in memory of their father
J.T. Fargason. Fargason Fields
encompasses 15 acres on the
north side of the campus. Originally
the . . . — — Map (db m102327) HM |
| Near Union Avenue at South Main Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Before 88 Union Center was renovated in the 1980's, it was known as the Three Sisters Building for the ladies apparel store that opened here in 1938. Before that, the 1927 building was called the Farnsworth Building after its financier, C.F. . . . — — Map (db m148904) HM |
| On Union Avenue east of South Front Street, on the right when traveling east. |
| | Parking can be fun, but not as fun as a show at Loew's Palace, where "talking movies" debuted in Memphis in 1928. The theater, where Harry Houdini and others performed in the 1920s, was razed in the 1980s. — — Map (db m116720) HM |
| On Poplar Avenue (U.S. 72) at East Parkway North, on the right when traveling west on Poplar Avenue. |
| | Front
On April 3, 1839, 11 Baptists met in the home of Spencer Hail to organize a Baptist church. The next day, the group met to sign articles of faith. On Sunday, April 7, the group was organized as a regular Baptist church and baptised . . . — — Map (db m86577) HM |
| On Linden Ave (or) Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Ave. (Tennessee Route 278) at S. Lauderdale Street, on the right when traveling west on Linden Ave (or) Dr. Martin Luther King Junior Ave.. |
| | (Front Side):
First Baptist Church
The First Baptist Church was designed by architect R. H. Hunt and built in 1906. It is constructed of yellow bricks along a Georgian-architectural style. It housed a congregation of 2,200 members . . . — — Map (db m55466) HM |
| On Lauderdale at Mississippi Boulevard, on the right when traveling north on Lauderdale. |
| | Front
Originally known as Beale Street Baptists Church First Baptist Church, Lauderdale began in 1865 as the first black Baptist church in West Tennessee. In 1877, it split from Beale Street Baptists. Through a legal action in 1894, it . . . — — Map (db m89009) HM |
| On Union Avenue at November 6th Street, on the right when traveling west on Union Avenue. |
| | On October 25, 1948 at 4p.m., Nat D. Williams signed on at WDIA radio, becoming the first black disc jockey on the South's first all-black radio station. His revolutionary rhythm and blues program followed a show called "Hillbilly Party" and . . . — — Map (db m116723) HM |
| Near S Watkins Street at Eastmoreland Ave.. Reported missing. |
| | Founded 1862, organized 1864 with 25 members, this was the earliest Congregational Church in Memphis and State of Tennessee; known first as Union Church, next as Strangers Church, at two downtown locations. This classical modified Ionic building, . . . — — Map (db m88064) HM |
| Near North Main Street just south of Winchester Avenue, on the left when traveling south. |
| | Shelby County's first court house, a $50 cabin, was built here in 1820. The court moved to Raleigh, and the cabin then housed the first newspaper, the Memphis Advocate, which began January 18, 1827. — — Map (db m148633) HM |
| On Summer Avenue 0.1 miles east of North Mendenhall Road, on the right when traveling east. |
| | The world’s first Holiday Inn was opened on this site, August 1, 1952 by Memphis entrepreneur Kemmons Wilson as a result of his unsatisfactory lodging experiences on a vacation the prior summer with his wife Dorothy and their five children. He soon . . . — — Map (db m63364) HM |
| On North Front Street at Jackson Avenue, on the right when traveling south on North Front Street. |
| | From here north to Auction Avenue steamboats landed; flatboats used the mouth of Gayoso Bayou above. Paddy Meagher, associated with this bluff as early as 1783, built a warehouse here in 1828. In 1829 Emmanuel Young built the town's first brick . . . — — Map (db m116298) HM |
| On North Main Street north of Winchester Avenue, on the left when traveling north. |
| | In 1820 several log cabins were built here to provide for the land office opening. Samuel Brown, first sheriff, later kept tavern on the same site. Adjacent on the south was the office of Frances Wright's Nashoba colony. — — Map (db m116296) HM |
| On North 2nd Street at Court Avenue, on the right when traveling south on North 2nd Street. |
| | Despite the hardships and divided loyalties of the Civil War, First National Bank of Memphis received Charter No. 336 from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency on March 25, 1864. Renamed First Tennessee in 1971, the city's first federally . . . — — Map (db m148967) HM |
| On Washington Avenue east of North 2nd Street, on the left when traveling east. |
| | Designed by Jones & Furbringer, Architects, this building opened in 1925 as the Criminal Courts Building, housing two divisions of criminal court, a 300-bed county jail, and various offices. The limestone exterior features several design elements of . . . — — Map (db m63366) HM |
| On Adams Avenue at B.B. King Boulevard (Tennessee Route 14), on the right when traveling east on Adams Avenue. Reported damaged. |
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From 1854 to 1860, Nathan Bedford Forrest operated a profitable slave trading business at this site. In 1826, Tennessee had prohibited bringing enslaved people into the state for the purpose of selling them. As cotton and slavery . . . — — Map (db m117144) HM |
| On Mississippi Boulevard at East Trigg Avenue, on the right when traveling south on Mississippi Boulevard. |
| | In this locality, the highest in Memphis, a section (2 guns) of Forrest's artillery was emplaced under Lt. Sale, supporting his raid on Memphis. Fire was directed against Federals in buildings of the State Female College about 700 yards NE, until it . . . — — Map (db m116276) HM |
| On Adams Avenue at North 3rd Street, on the right when traveling west on Adams Avenue. |
| | In a house which stood here in antebellum days lived Nathan Bedford Forrest. Born in middle Tennessee, 1821, he spent his early life on a Mississippi plantation.
Following marriage in 1845, he came to Memphis, where his business enterprises made . . . — — Map (db m115931) HM |
| | With Chickasaw approval, Army Captain Isaac Guion erected the United States' first garrison in the mid-Mississippi Valley here in October of 1797. Initially named Fort Adams for the second U.S. President, the stockade was later called Fort Pike, . . . — — Map (db m74828) WM |
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