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The Memphis Area Transit Authority (MATA) is the public transportation provider for Memphis, Tennessee. It is one of the largest transit providers in the state of Tennessee; MATA transports customers in the City of Memphis and parts of Shelby County on fixed-route buses, paratransit vehicles, demand-responsive service, and the MATA Trolley ...
5 North Memphis. 6 Northeast. 7 South Memphis. 8 Southeast. 9 East Parkway District. 10 See also. ... East Parkway District. Fairgrounds; Glenview; Lamar Avenue ...
The MATA Trolley is a heritage streetcar transit system in Memphis, Tennessee. It began operating on April 29, 1993. [ 1 ] Service was suspended in June 2014, following fires on two cars. [ 7 ] After nearly four years and repeated postponements, the reopening of the Main Street Line took place on April 30, 2018, [ 8 ] while the system's two ...
On September 4, South Memphis was divided into four wards. The treasurer for the first corporate year made a report showing that the revenue amounted to $6,266.17, and licenses, etc., to $3,750.50. John T. Trezevant was mayor in 1847-48 and A. B. Taylor in 1849. The last meeting of the mayor and aldermen of South Memphis took place December 31 ...
State Route 385 (SR 385) is the designation for two non-contiguous segments of east–west controlled-access highway in the Memphis metropolitan area in Shelby County, Tennessee, separated by a section of Interstate 269 (I-269). The northern section, designated as Paul W. Barret Parkway runs between U.S. Route 51 (US 51) in Millington and I-40 ...
Orange Mound, Memphis. Coordinates: 35.1078°N 89.9720°W. O-Mound mural. Orange Mound, a neighborhood in southeastern Memphis, Tennessee, was the first US neighborhood to be built by and for African Americans. [1][failed verification][dubious – discuss] Built on the grounds of the former Deaderick plantation, the Orange Mound subdivision was ...
SR 277 begins as a signed secondary highway at an intersection with Lamar Avenue (US 78 / SR 4) and Airways Boulevard in the Orange Mound community and continues north as Airways. It intersects the Memphis Parkway System and turns into East Parkway. Continuing north it crosses under Union Avenue (US 70 / 79 / 64 / SR 23) and picks up the former ...
History. Chickasaw Gardens is located on land that was originally part of the estate of Clarence Saunders, the Memphis inventor of the first self-service grocery store named 'Piggly Wiggly'. The Chickasaw Gardens lake was originally constructed as part of an elaborate garden with rustic bridges and a playhouse for Saunders' children.