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Anita Ward — singer and schoolteacher; 1979 number one Billboard Hot 100 single "Ring My Bell" Thomas Waterson — police officer who captured Machine Gun Kelly in a Memphis raid in 1933; Luke J. Weathers (1920–2011) — former U.S. Army Air Force officer and member of Tuskegee Airmen [6] Ida B. Wells — civil rights advocate and women's ...
The two stations share studios at the Shelby Oaks Corporate Park on Shelby Oaks Drive in the northeast section of Memphis; WATN-TV's transmitter is located in the Brunswick section of unincorporated northeast Shelby County. Channel 24 in Memphis began broadcasting in September 1978 as WPTY-TV, the first independent station in the Memphis area ...
WREG-TV (channel 3) is a television station in Memphis, Tennessee, United States, affiliated with CBS and owned by Nexstar Media Group.The station's studios are located on Channel 3 Drive near the Mississippi River on the west side of Memphis, and its transmitter is located near Bartlett, Tennessee.
Mayor Paul Young speaks during the 75th Annual High Point Terrace Neighborhood Independence Day Celebration in Memphis, Tenn., on Thursday, July 4, 2024.
On October 30, 2009, Park National Bank was taken over by the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the bank's assets were sold to U.S. Bancorp. [8] In December 2010, a local investment group known as Memphis Commerce Square Partners purchased the building from U.S. Bancorp. Management is by Cushman & Wakefield.
The first station in the district was on Calhoun Street, built c. 1855 by the Mississippi and Tennessee Railroad.It was replaced by a newer Calhoun Street Station that was demolished when Memphis Central Station (originally Grand Central Station) was built on the same site in 1912–1914 by the Illinois Central Railroad and a subsidiary, the Yazoo & Mississippi Valley Railroad that ran south ...
Summer Ave in Binghampton (2010) Binghampton (also spelled "Binghamton") is a neighborhood on an edge of Midtown in Memphis, Tennessee. [1] It is named after W. H. Bingham, an Irish immigrant, hotelier, planter, magistrate, politician, and entrepreneur who founded a town to the east and slightly north of the Memphis city limits in 1893.
The northern segment, combined with I-269, serves as a partial outer beltway around Memphis, and the southern segment serves as a spur route between the city and its southeastern suburbs, and is notable for its almost-exclusive use of single-point urban interchanges (SPUIs). The highway that is now SR 385 was originally envisioned in the 1960s.