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From about 10,000 BCE, Paleo-Indians and later Archaic-Indians lived as communities of hunter-gatherers in the area that covers the modern-day southern United States. [4] [5] Approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi River Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a mound-building Native American people who had developed in the late Woodland Indian period.
In particular, the Port of West Memphis, owned by the city and slightly south of city center along the Mississippi River, is a deepwater port and facilitates transloading among trucks, barges and trains. [30] [31] [32] It is served by the West Memphis Base Railroad, a three-mile branch line that allows Union Pacific to reach customers at the ...
The city of Memphis It is the regional hub for a tri-state area of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The city center is located on the Mississippi river at the site of the earliest settlements. Interstate 40 enters the city from the northeast, and loops above the central part of the city, exiting across the Mississippi River and traveling to ...
According to the United States Census Bureau, Marion has a total area of 20.5 square miles (53.1 km 2), of which 20.4 square miles (52.9 km 2) is land and 0.077 square miles (0.2 km 2), or 0.37%, is water. [14] It is bordered by the city of West Memphis to the south and by Sunset and Clarkedale to the north.
As with the Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky's Paradise Lost documentary trilogy (Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (1996), Paradise Lost 2: Revelations (2000), and Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (2011)), West of Memphis is about the West Memphis Three case, in which Damien Echols, Jason Baldwin, and Jessie Misskelley, three teenagers from West Memphis, Arkansas, were convicted ...
Frisco Bridge at Structurae; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. TN-14, "Memphis Bridge", 61 photos, 4 photo caption pages; Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) No. NE-2, "Nebraska City Bridge", 59 photos, 3 measured drawings, 511 data pages, 3 photo caption pages, discusses Chief Engineer George S. Morison and his many bridges, including nearly 50 pages about the Memphis ...
1836 – Memphis Enquirer newspaper begins publication. [4] 1841 – The Appeal newspaper begins publication. 1843 New Orleans-Memphis telegraph begins operating. [3] Memphis Daily Eagle newspaper begins publication. [4] 1844 – Calvary Episcopal Church consecrated. [5] 1849 – Memphis incorporated as a city. [1] [2] 1850 Town designated a ...
I-40 is a coast-to-coast freeway that connects Memphis to Nashville and on to North Carolina to the east, and Little Rock, Arkansas, Oklahoma City, and the Greater Los Angeles Area to the west. I-55 connects Memphis to St. Louis and Chicago to the north, and Jackson, Mississippi and New Orleans to the south.