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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16W8_presbyterian-church-of-collierville_Collierville-TN.html
In 1844 Salem Presbyterian Church was established in southeast Shelby County. It remained there until 1871 and then relocated to Collierville. The name was changed to the Presbyterian Church of Collierville. The Presbyterians met at the Methodist …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM16L9_the-lorraine-motel_Memphis-TN.html
Originally the Windsor Hotel (c. 1925) and later one of the only few hotels for blacks, it hosted such entertainers as Cab Calloway, Aretha Franklin, Count Basie, B.B. King, and Nat King Cole. Walter and Loree Bailey bought it in 1942, renaming it…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15Z9_rose-garden_Memphis-TN.html
This rose garden is dedicated to the memory and honor of all veterans. Through the generosity of the local districts of the Veterans of Foreign Wars, the Tipton County Veterans Council, the Junior League Garden Club, the Memphis Rose Society, the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM15Z8_illinois-monument_Memphis-TN.html
When President Abraham Lincoln called for volunteers to defend the life of our imperiled nation, these valiant sons of Illinois together with other heroes, offered their lives with patriotism unsurpassed.
With unflinching bravery they fought th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM12CK_tom-lee-monument_Memphis-TN.html
Late afternoon of May 8, 1925, Tom Lee (1886-1952) steered his 28' skiff Zev upriver after delivering an official to Helena.
Also on the river was a steamboat, the M. E. Norman, carrying members of the Engineers Club of Memphis, the American So…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11LK_josiah-t-settle_Memphis-TN.html
After a noted legal and legislative career in Mississippi, Settle came to Memphis in 1885 During the late 1880s, he served as Assistant Attorney General of the Criminal Court of Shelby County, an appointment unprecedented for an African-American a…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11K5_the-hunt-phelan-home_Memphis-TN.html
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 time in the house. Later, it was used as a Federal Ho…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11JV_george-w-lee_Memphis-TN.html
Political, business and civic leader, Lee was a lieutenant in the U.S. Army Expeditionary Force. Heroic in W.W.I, he was an active black combat officer. An insurance executive and capitalist, Lee was leader of the Lincoln League and Old Guard Repu…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11IX_first-baptist-church-mt-olive-cme-church_Memphis-TN.html
(Front Side):First Baptist ChurchThe First Baptist Church was designed by architect R. H. Hunt and built in 1906. It is constructed of yellow bricks along a Georgian-architectural style. It housed a congregation of 2,200 members which organized th…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM11GL_the-commercial-appeal-publishing-locations_Memphis-TN.html
(side 1)The Commercial Appeal
This newspaper began in 1839 as THE WESTERN WORLD & MEMPHIS BANNER OF THE CONSTITUTION. In 1840 Col. Henry Van Pelt bought and renamed it THE MEMPHIS APPEAL. During the Civil War it published on the run from Union …