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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2EDJ_metropolitan-inter-faith-association_Memphis-TN.html
Metropolitan Inter~Faith Association. . On September 15, 1968, thirty clergy and lay people from different congregations and different races established MIFA. For decades before, faith leaders had considered ways the community could unite, but aft…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29TD_the-lynching-of-lee-walker_Memphis-TN.html
A mob estimated at 3,000 people gathered near this spot on the night of July 22, 1893, with the intent of breaking into the Shelby County Jail and seizing Lee Walker, a black prisoner accused of attempting to rape a young white woman. Four days ea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM29TC_fort-san-fernando-de-las-barrancas_Memphis-TN.html
Louisiana's lieutenant governor, Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, erected Fort San Fernando de las Barrancas near this site in May of 1795. He named the structure for Spain's crown prince and future king, Ferdinand VII. Conforming to Pinckney's Treaty, Spa…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM296L_nelson-kirby-house_Memphis-TN.html
This house was home to two owners who experienced differently the tribulations of the Civil War. The first, Thomas A. Nelson (1819-1887), acquired property on Poplar Pike in 1869 as a rural refuge from the yellow fever epidemics that periodically …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28VI_ridge-of-the-attack_Collierville-TN.html
This is a portion of the ridge where the Confederates faced the occupying Union Forces and General W. T. Sherman in the Battle of Collierville. When you look north toward the railroad and the town square you are standing in the shadows of the Conf…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28NF_u-s-colored-troops-and-the-battle-of-fort-pillow_Memphis-TN.html
U.S. Colored Troops and the Battle of Fort Pillow Buried in Memphis National Cemetery are the remains of 248 mostly unknown Union officers and soldiers including 109 graves representing the U.S. Colored Troops who fell at nearby Fort Pillow. In…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM28B5_bridgewater-school_TN.html
Bridgewater School, formerly on this site, was founded in 1911 and exited continuously at this site until 1960. In 1921, with help from the community, the Shelby County school board, and the Rosenwald Fund, the Rosenwald school concept was institu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM288J_dr-greene-fort-pinkston_TN.html
Dr. Greene Fort Pinkston, who practiced medicine for more than 58 years in the Cordova area, was born in Scott County, Mississippi, in 1875. His parents were Ritton and Fannie Gresham Pinkston. At age 24 he left home to attend Meharry Medical Scho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM277P_the-mississippi-riverwalk_Memphis-TN.html
The Riverwalk is a portrait of Old Man River in the miniature-the winding 1.000-mile journey of the lower Mississippi reproduced in a one-half mile concrete sculpture. On a horizontal scale of 30 inches, or one step, to the mile, this flowing mode…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM274P_overton-square_Memphis-TN.html
East Side in 1969, Overton Square's founders—James D. Robinson, Jr., Ben Woodson, Charles H. Hull, Jr., and Frank Doggrell, III- developed T.G.I Friday's which became the first establishment in the city to sell alcohol by the drink. The …
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