In Loving Memory of Janet Pang Young 1910 - 1989
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A Bench by the Road
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Overton Park
The 342 acre Lea Woods was bought in 1901 as the first project of Memphis Park Commission on advice of Olmsted Brothers, noted landscape architects. By popular vote it was named for Judge...
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Sara Roberta Church1914-1915
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...
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Porter-Leath Children's Center
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...
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Shelby County Hospital
Completed in June of 1935, the Shelby County Hospital at Shelby Farms was built here as a replacement for both the much older Shelby County Hospital, located on the workhouse grounds at Jackson...
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Nat D. Williams
In 1948, Nat D. Williams became the first black radio announcer in Memphis when he began broadcasting for WDIA. He was a co-founder of the Cotton Makers Jubilee and is credited with giving the...
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Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church
The cornerstone for Saint Andrew's Episcopal Church was laid on April 22, 1890. The church was consecrated on May 27, 1891. Anna Holden, the guiding force in the founding of St. Andrew's, led a...
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Naval Battle of Memphis 1862
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 in the Mississippi River...
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Revolutionary War Soldiers Interred In Shelby County
Major Joseph Hardaway Captain Nathaniel Moore Lieutenant John Bolton Lieutenant Clement McDaniel James Avery Joseph Ballew John Daugherty Kader Harrell William Hillis John Holliday James G. Hooker...
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Robert R. Church Statue
In Memory of Robert R. Church 1839-1912 Pioneer Businessman, Benefactor & Distinguished Citizen of Memphis Submitted from the Shelby County Register's Office.
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National Cemetery Minnesota Monument
Erected 1916 By The State Of Minnesota In Memory Of Her Soldiers Here Buried Who Lost Their Lives In The Service Of The United States In The War For The Preservation Of The Union A.D....
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Peabody Lobby
"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...
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The Headless Horseman Bridge
THE HEADLESS HORSEMAN BRIDGE DESCRIBED BY IRVING IN THE LEGEND OF SLEEPY HOLLOW FORMERLY SPANNED THIS STREAM AT THIS SPOT Submitted by @RoadTripNE
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St. Peter Catholic Church
St. Peter's was founded in 1840, the first Roman Catholic Parish in West Tennessee and given to the Dominican Order in 1846. The present church was built 1852-1855 around a smaller church which...
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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...
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Tennessee Williams
In the spring of 1935 while visiting his grandparents, the Rev. and Mrs. Walter F. Dakin, at 1917 Snowden, Tennessee Williams first encountered Chekhov in Southwestern's library, and wrote his...
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Piggly Wiggly
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...
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Sun Records
In the early 1950's Sun Records was a small recording studio located here at 706 Union. Owned and operated by Sam C. Phillips, Sun Records became nationally known for giving many local...
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Tennessee Williams First Performance
On the evening of July 12, 1935, in the garden behind this house, the Garden Players under the direction of Arthur Scharff performed Tennessee Williams' first staged play "Cairo,...
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