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In 1872, the Louisville & Nashville, or L&N Railroad, bought the Memphis & Ohio Railroad and sponsored a contest to rename the community near Bond's Station depot. "Ellendale" was chosen as a play-on-words of the abbreviation L&N. [2] According to a source, it appears that Ellendale was eventually annexed by Bartlett in 1977. [3]
The Bartlett Recreation Center is a 55,000 sq ft (5,100 m 2) facility that was completed in August 2000. [17] The recreation center is located at 7700 Flaherty Place directly behind the Bartlett Police Station.
Eads is located north of Collierville, west of Somerville, and east of Memphis and Bartlett. The Eads zip code (38028) stretches into both Shelby County and Fayette County , including parts of Hickory Withe and Fisherville .
[19] [20] The community is home of the Hope Presbyterian Church, a megachurch with average weekly attendance of over 7,500. [21] In 2005 the church scaled down plans for a $50 million auditorium with a bell tower that would reach to 180 feet after protests from local homeowners, but opened a smaller facility with 5,000 seats in December 2007. [22]
The Memphis–Clarksdale–Forrest City Combined Statistical Area, TN–MS–AR (CSA) is the commercial and cultural hub of the Mid-South or Ark-Miss-Tenn. The census-defined combined statistical area covers eleven counties in three states, Tennessee , Mississippi , and Arkansas .
The church was built circa 1795 or 1796, and was known at first as Big Spring Meetinghouse. A Baptist church was organized at the site in 1800. During the Civil War, it served as a hospital for both Confederate and Union Army troops. [2] It is one of the oldest church buildings in Tennessee that is still in active use as a church. [2]
In 1950, a second campus was opened in Memphis, and in 1954 one followed in Chattanooga. By the 1950s, most of the children in residence were from homes in crisis, not orphans, so board members decided in 1953 to rename the ministry to more accurately reflect its work—Tennessee Baptist Children's Homes. The TBCH does not accept government ...
Until the late 1970s, the Gotten House was owned by the City of Bartlett and used as the Bartlett Police Station. [6] In the early 1980s, the house was leased by the City of Bartlett to the Bartlett Historic Society in a 50-year contract for $1 per year, to save the house from planned demolition and to refurbish the property. [ 7 ]