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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1LC1_griffin-house_Memphis-TN.html
Leighnora Elisabeth Griffin, pictured here in the 1930s, lived at 2118 Madison Avenue from 1919 until her death at age 89. She once turned down an offer price of $500,000 to purchase the home during the mid-70's heyday of Overton Square entertainm…
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/HM1KSY_bettis-family-cemetery_Memphis-TN.html
Here was the farm of the Tillman Bettis family on the Memphis bluff after the 1818 treaty, even before the town was laid off. Mary Bettis was the first child born in the new settlement.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KSD_st-johns-united-methodist-church_Memphis-TN.html
The earliest members of this church were among the founders of Methodism in Memphis. This congregation, established in 1859 as Central Church Mission, first met on Union Avenue. St. John's built in 1907, was designed by Beauregard C. Alsup. The Ch…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KSB_annesdale-park-subdivision_Memphis-TN.html
Developed as an exclusive neighborhood in 1903 by Brinkley Snowden and T. O. Vinton, Annesdale Park was the first subdivision in the South planned upon metropolitan lines. It was considered an important display of confidence in the city's future. …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM172J_zippin-pippin_Memphis-TN.html
The wooden roller coaster erected on the Fairgrounds in 1923 was the Mid-South's premier outdoor amusement park ride for more than eight decades. It was built by coaster design pioneer John Miller and was affectionately christened the Pippin, 1920…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HME2P_elmwood-cemetery_Memphis-TN.html
Elmwood Cemetery was established on August 28, 1852. Buried here are Memphis pioneer families: 14 Confederate generals; victims of the Yellow Fever epidemic of 1878; Governors Isham G. Harris and James C. Jones; U.S. Senators Kenneth D. McKellar, …