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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LBY_st-agnes-academy_Memphis-TN.html
Founded January 10, 1851, St. Agnes Academy was sponsored by the Dominican Sisters from Kentucky. The school continued to operate during the Civil War and some nuns were pressed into service as nurses. Through the yellow fever epidemics of the 187…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LBQ_gen-james-m-kennedy-hospital_Memphis-TN.html
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 an…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L7U_mullins-united-methodist-church_Memphis-TN.html
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 F…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L6E_central-gardens-historic-district_Memphis-TN.html
Side A 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 deve…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L5O_grace-st-lukes-episcopal-church_Memphis-TN.html
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 Ca…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1L5H_benjamin-albert-imes_Memphis-TN.html
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 in…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KY9_normal-depot_Memphis-TN.html
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"…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KUW_mt-moriah-baptist-church_Memphis-TN.html
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 pasto…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KUV_orange-mound_Memphis-TN.html
Orange Mound, developed as Negro subdivision at the turn of the century, was formerly a 5000 acre plantation owned by John George Deaderick. Bounded by the Southern Railway on the north, Airways on the west, Park on the South, and Goodwyn on the e…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KT2_maxwelton-circa-1855-1860_Memphis-TN.html
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 18…