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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/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…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2154_it-was-a-struggle-for-freedom-for-dignity-and-for-equality_Memphis-TN.html
The City of Memphis recognizes the American Federation of State County and Municipal Employees AFL-CIO Local 1733 as the designated representative for the Division of Public Works for the purpose of negotiations on wages hours and conditions of em…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2153_this-plaque-is-dedicated-to-father-and-son-leaders-of-their-race_Memphis-TN.html
Robert R. Church, Sr.
1839-1912
Pioneer businessman, first citizen to buy bond to restore City Charter after yellow fever epidemics of 1878-1879 had reduced Memphis to a taxing district, bought bond number one of first series for one-thousand do…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM212Z_church-park-auditorium_Memphis-TN.html
Established in 1899, Church's park and auditorium was the only such facility in the United States owned entirely by a black man and conducted in the interest of black people.
Standard admission to the auditorium was 15ยข seating capacity was 2200…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NSY_cobblestone-landing_Memphis-TN.html
There were several boat landings in this general area during the nineteenth century. An 1827 drawing shows a public landing approximately on-half mile north of this spot, but changes in the "batture" or built-up bank caused by the river moved the …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NSV_mud-island_Memphis-TN.html
Mud Island, across the old Wolf River channel before you, began to be formed by the Mississippi River around 1900. By 1916 there was concern that it would grow so far south that it would block access to the harbor, so the island was connected to t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NRO_memphis-queen-ii_Memphis-TN.html
Built in 1955 by the Dubuque Boat & Boiler Company, the Memphis Queen II was the first all-steel passenger ship on the Mississippi River. Measuring 85 feet long by 43 feet wide, it features two decks, two smokestacks, and a stern wheel reminiscent…