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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25UO_island-no-20-cottonwood-point-booth-point-tennessee-linwood-bend_Memphis-TN.html
A) Island No. 20
Mile 8290 AHP
The wondering geography of Island No. 20 illustrates the Mississippi River's erratic nature. Navigation charts of 1801 show the island lying near the west bank. Later, the river moved and placed the island close …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25UG_cairo-illinois_Memphis-TN.html
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 i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25SM_ernest-c-withers-house_Memphis-TN.html
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 magazin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM220C_congregation-b-nai-israel_Memphis-TN.html
Jews have been a part of Tennessee's economic, social and political life since the early 19th century. Congregation Children of Israel, chartered by the State of Tennessee on March 2, 1854, rented and eventually purchased a building near this site…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21PJ_this-chimney-swift-tower_Memphis-TN.html
This chimney swift tower celebrates the work of Ben and Lula Coffey who directed members of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, Boy Scouts, and others in banding 113,000 swifts from 1932 to 1959. Rediscovery of six of the bands in Peru helped to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21MX_beale-street-2_Memphis-TN.html
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 conso…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM218P_memphis-national-cemetery-a-war-memorial_Memphis-TN.html
This National Cemetery has been listed in The National Register of Historic Places by the United States Department of the Interior 1996
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM218H_beale-street-4_Memphis-TN.html
"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 …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM218G_beale-street-3_Memphis-TN.html
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,
theate…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM218E_beale-street-1_Memphis-TN.html
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 wo…