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Overton Park is a large, 342-acre (138 ha) public park in Midtown Memphis, Tennessee. The park grounds contain the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art , Memphis Zoo , a 9-hole golf course, the Memphis College of Art , Rainbow Lake, Veterans Plaza, the Greensward, and other features.
The western segment between I-40 and I-55 was designated as I-255 until 1973, however. Citizen opposition to the routing of I-40 through Overton Park in the central part of Memphis resulted in I-40 being rerouted onto what was originally the northern loop of I-240 in 1981. As a result of this change, I-240's exits are still numbered according ...
State Route 169 (SR 169), also known as Middlebrook Pike, is a west-to-east secondary highway in Knox County in the U.S. state of Tennessee. The route is 11.7 miles (18.8 km) long. Its western terminus is in west Knox County at SR 131 (Lovell Road/Ball Camp-Byington Road). Its eastern terminus is in Knoxville at SR 62 (Western Avenue).
The Hernando de Soto Bridge carries I-40 across the Mississippi River from Arkansas into Tennessee at Memphis. I-40 enters Tennessee from Arkansas in a direct east–west alignment via the six-lane Hernando de Soto Bridge, a tied-arch bridge which spans the Mississippi River and has a total length of about 1.8 miles (2.9 km). [10]
U.S. Route 70 (US 70) enters the state of Tennessee from Arkansas via the Memphis & Arkansas Bridge in Memphis, and runs west to east across 21 counties in all three Grand Divisions of Tennessee, with a total length of 478.48 miles (770.04 km), to end at the North Carolina state line in eastern Cocke County.
The shortest mainline Interstate Highway in Tennessee is I-55, at a length of 12.28 miles (19.76 km) in Memphis. The longest auxiliary Interstate Highway in Tennessee is I-840, an outer southern bypass around Nashville, at a length of 77.28 miles (124.37 km).
TriStar Motorsports was an American professional stock car racing team that used to compete in the Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series.The team competed in the NASCAR Winston Cup Series primarily during the early to mid 1990s, suspending racing operations in 1997 and continuing on as Tri-Star Motors, and later Pro Motor Engines, supplying engines to many NASCAR teams prior to returning to ...
United States historic place Kingston Pike Historic District U.S. National Register of Historic Places U.S. Historic district Kingston Pike, circa 1900 Show map of Tennessee Show map of the United States Location Roughly 2728–3151, 3201, 3219, 3401, 3425, and 3643 Kingston Pike Knoxville, Tennessee Coordinates 35°56′58″N 83°57′18″W / 35.94944°N 83.95500°W / 35.94944 ...