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Cypress Middle School, located at 2109 Howell Street, was the only middle school in Hyde Park and still is today. The school is formerly operated by the Memphis City Schools and was a campus school in the Shelby County Schools before submitting its charter to KIPP. The school serves about 450 students in grades 6–8.
"Welcome to Memphis" sign on U.S. Route 51 (2008). Memphis, Tennessee has a long history of distinctive contributions to the culture of the American South and beyond. Although it is an important part of the culture of Tennessee, the history, arts, and cuisine of Memphis are more closely associated with the culture of the Deep South (particularly the Mississippi Delta) than the rest of the state.
The Memphis Pyramid, formerly known as the Great American Pyramid and the Pyramid Arena, and colloquially known as the Bass Pro Shops Pyramid, [5] is a pyramid-shaped building located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, United States, at the bank of the Mississippi River.
Beale Street Baptist Church, Tennessee's oldest surviving African American Church edifice built beginning in 1869, was also important in the early civil rights movement in Memphis. In 1889, NAACP co-founder Ida B. Wells was a co-owner and editor of an anti-segregationist paper called Free Speech based on Beale before her presses were destroyed ...
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.
The Audubon Golf Course can be seen on Wednesday, April 17, 2024 at 4160 Park Avenue in Memphis, Tenn. The park is undergoing renovations.
Frayser is a neighborhood on the north side of Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It is named after Memphis physician Dr. J Frayser, who owned a summer home near the railroad. [1] Frayser's boundaries are the Wolf River to the south, the Mississippi River to the west, the Loosahatchie River to the north, and ICRR tracks to the east. [1]
Memphis did try to annex this area in the mid-2000s but held it off due to an inability to move services into the area. Per Tennessee law, each county is required to set up urban growth boundaries for it cities. Because of this, Memphis (along with each suburb) has what is known as an annexation reserve that defines the eventual city limits.