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There are 204 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 4 National Historic Landmarks. There are 24 properties that have been removed from the register. This National Park Service list is complete through NPS recent listings posted November 1, 2024.[2]
From Boss Crump to King Willie: How Race Changed Memphis Politics. Knoxville, TN: University of Tennessee Press. ISBN 978-1621903222. 276 pp. Plunkett, Kitty (1976). Memphis: A Pictorial History. Donning. ISBN 978-0915442249. Robinson, James H. (1934). A Social History of the Negro in Memphis and in Shelby County (PhD thesis). Yale University.
Shelby County is the westernmost county in the U.S. state of Tennessee. As of the 2020 census, the population was 929,744. [ 3 ] It is the largest of the state's 95 counties, both in terms of population and geographic area. Its county seat is Memphis, [ 4 ] a port on the Mississippi River and the second most populous city in the state.
Shelby County Clerk Wanda Halbert hands a document to reporter Brooke Muckerman during an interview with The Commercial Appeal in her office in Memphis, Tenn., on Friday, January 5, 2024.
U.S. National Register of Historic Places. The Mosby-Bennett House in 2017. Location. 6256 Poplar Ave, Memphis, Tennessee. Coordinates. 35°06′05″N 89°51′17″W / 35.10139°N 89.85472°W / 35.10139; -89.85472 (Mosby-Bennett House) Area. less than one acre.
It then crosses the Wolf River where the speed limit rises to 45 and passes back into Memphis through the Cordova community. SR 177 later intersects I-40 (Exit 16) near the Wolfchase Galleria . SR 177 crosses US 64 / SR 15 (Stage Road) in Bartlett , before terminating as a state route at US 70 / US 79 / SR 1 .
But with 78% of students in Tennessee’s largest school system scoring below proficiency on state tests for English language arts in 2023-24, district leaders say, there’s an urgent need to ...
The Memphis National Cemetery is located in Nutbush, Memphis. On 44.2 acres (0.18 km 2), the cemetery had 42,184 interments at the end of 2007. [2]Several battlefield cemeteries from the American Civil War era were transferred to Memphis and many of the dead from the steamboat Sultana explosion on April 26, 1865 were buried in Memphis National Cemetery.