CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1986 AMERICAN PHOTOPLAYER CO. COOPER WOODWORKING BUILDINGS 1912 - 1920 Over the years this complex housed Cooper Woodworking, the Sperry Flour Company, the...
CITY OF BERKELEY LANDMARK designated in 1977 FOX COURT Carl Fox, Designer, 1927–30 Listed on the National Register of Historic Places This small- scaled complex of one- and two-story buildings...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In Memory of Robert R. Church 1839-1912 Pioneer Businessman, Benefactor & Distinguished Citizen of Memphis Submitted from the Shelby County Register's Office.
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....
"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...