The Hunt - Phelan Home
During the Civil War, the house was commandeered by General Ulysses Grant as his Memphis headquarters. Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederacy, and a friend of the Hunt family, also spent...
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The Mount Nebo Baptist Church
For a short time the members met in an improvised building using old sacks for the enclosure, thus the soubriquet "Sacks Chapel." The Reverends Abraham Henderson, J.W. Shaw, Roy Love, and James H....
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T. H. Hayes And Sons Funeral Home
Founded in 1902 by Thomas H. Hayes, Sr., T.H. Hayes and Sons Funeral Home is Memphis' oldest black business. Originally on Poplar, the business moved to Lauderdale in 1918. Hayes was active in the...
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Stax Recording Studios
On this site stood Stax Records, Inc. which boasted such stars as Otis Redding, Rufus and Carla Thomas, Isaac Hayes, the Staple Singers, Albert King, the Bar-Kays, and many others. It relied upon...
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The Pontotoc Trace
Long years before pioneer settlements established outposts of civilization on the banks of the Father of Waters, The Trail connecting the Chickasaw Village of Pontotoc with the bluffs of the...
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Stage Stop Log Cabin
Old Stage Coach Rest Stop Built 1851 Moved and Restored by Miss-Ark-Tenn Packing Corp. and National Can Corp. Collierville, Tenn. Dedicated May 8, 1977 Tribute to Carolyn Carrington Crump...
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Raleigh
First known as Sanderlin's Bluff, the town of Raleigh was named by Joseph Graham, the first Circuit Court Clerk, for his North Carolina hometown. It was the county seat of Shelby County from 1824...
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Rachel H. K. Burrow Museum
Early pioneers settled in the Arlington area around 1830. A depot, called Withe Station, was established in 1856. The land was given by General Samuel Jackson Hays. In 1872 his land holdings were...
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Park Field
During WWI Park Field became a Signal Corps aviation school, one of the 1st airfields in West Tennessee. Gen. Jas. H. Doolittle often ferried aeroplanes in for Curtiss Aircraft. After WWI...
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Old Stagecoach Inn
Just to the north is the site of an old inn used by stagecoach and other travellers between Memphis and eastern settlements from 1829 until stagecoach travel ceased. It was dismantled in...
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Oak Grove Baptist Church
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...
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Nicholas Gotten 1832-1919
Nicholas Gotten a native of Spangdahlen, Germany, immigrated to America at age 22; worked in the north before coming to Tennessee; established himself as a blacksmith in Union Depot...
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Pee Wee Saloon (P. Wee Saloon)
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...
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People's Grocery
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...
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Normal Depot
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...
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