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Harbor Town is a new urbanist-style neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. Harbor Town sits atop 132 acres (53 hectares) on a sandbar in the Mississippi River known as Mud Island . It was developed in 1989, [1] and was a collaborative effort of Memphis developer Henry Turley, RTKL of Baltimore, and the Looney Ricks Kiss architectural firm from ...
It was originally referred to as City Island until the 1950s. Mud Island became the location of the Memphis Downtown Airport in 1959 and was used primarily by wealthy businessmen to access Downtown Memphis. [19] In 1960, the Wolf River Levee was used to divert the flow of the Wolf River. [13] The airport was shut down in 1970 due to the ...
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History. The name President or President's Island appeared as early as 1801 or 1802 in a river guide called Cramer's Navigator. [1] The name referred to the island's size, then the largest on the Mississippi River. [1] At that time President's Island was an actual island. Some old river maps identify the northern third of the present island as ...
North Memphis is one of the five defined districts of Memphis, Tennessee. It includes smaller neighborhoods such as Klondike, New Chicago, Douglass, Hyde Park, Hollywood, Nutbush, Binghampton, Smokey City, Scutterfeld, Frayser, and Raleigh. History. North Memphis flourished during the 19th and 20th centuries.
The primary zip codes in this area are 38111, 38117, and 38157, including 38120 and 38119. In 1950, the eastern boundary of Memphis was essentially the western boundary of what is today East Memphis. By the mid-1960s, most of East Memphis inside the I-240 loop had been annexed by the city of Memphis.
The ZIP codes of South Memphis are 38106, 38109, 38126, 38114 and 38116. (38116 has never been in South Memphis. Before the USPS Zip Code implementation, Whitehaven was Zone 16. The ICRR tracks was and continues to be the western dividing line and Brooks Rd. on the north. The west side of the tracks was zone 9, 38109 today.