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National Register Of Historic Places Listings In Shelby County, Tennessee
__NOTOC__ This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Shelby County, Tennessee. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many National Register properties and districts; these locations may be seen together in a map. There are 200 properties and districts listed on the National Register in the county, including 4 National Historic Landmarks. There are 23 properties that have been removed from the register. Current listings Former listings Twenty-three other properties were once listed, but have now been removed: See also * List of National Historic Landmark ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Map Of Tennessee Highlighting Shelby County
A map is a symbolic depiction emphasizing relationships between elements of some space, such as objects, regions, or themes. Many maps are static, fixed to paper or some other durable medium, while others are dynamic or interactive. Although most commonly used to depict geography, maps may represent any space, real or fictional, without regard to context or scale, such as in brain mapping, DNA mapping, or computer network topology mapping. The space being mapped may be two dimensional, such as the surface of the earth, three dimensional, such as the interior of the earth, or even more abstract spaces of any dimension, such as arise in modeling phenomena having many independent variables. Although the earliest maps known are of the heavens, geographic maps of territory have a very long tradition and exist from ancient times. The word "map" comes from the , wherein ''mappa'' meant 'napkin' or 'cloth' and ''mundi'' 'the world'. Thus, "map" became a shortened term referring to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Southern Railway (U
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Vance-Pontotoc Historic District
The Vance-Pontotoc Historic District, in Memphis, Tennessee, was a historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places. It included 69 contributing buildings on . It was listed in 1980 for its architectural significance. It included a number of early shotgun houses, which the Tennessee Encyclopedia has noted were endangered and "disappearing rapidly". The shotgun houses and/or other residences included Late Victorian, Queen Anne, and Italianate The Italianate style was a distinct 19th-century phase in the history of Classical architecture. Like Palladianism and Neoclassicism, the Italianate style drew its inspiration from the models and architectural vocabulary of 16th-century Italian ... styling. The district borders made an irregular pattern along Vance and Pontotoc Avenues in Memphis. Twelve of the buildings were destroyed by fire between 1979 and 1982. Only 12 of the 65 listed buildings remain. The district was delisted from the National R ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eads, Tennessee
Eads is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, named after Civil War engineer James Buchanan Eads. Some parts of Eads (and some surrounding areas) have been annexed by the city of Memphis. Some of its area is currently still unincorporated. Eads is located north of Collierville, west of Somerville, east of Memphis and Bartlett. The Eads zip code (38028) stretches into both Shelby County and Fayette County, including parts of Hickory Withe and Fisherville. Major roads in the community include Winfield Dunn Parkway (Interstate 269), U.S. Route 64, Collierville-Arlington Road/Airline Road (Tennessee State Route 205), and Seward Road. History The community of Eads was founded in 1888, when the Tennessee Midland Railroad tracks of Tennessee were laid out through a village that was known as Sewardville. Annexation After a seven-year court challenge to the right of Memphis to annex, small portions of Eads were annexed into the Memphis City Council ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cecil C
Cecil may refer to: People with the name * Cecil (given name), a given name (including a list of people and fictional characters with the name) * Cecil (surname), a surname (including a list of people with the name) Places Canada *Cecil, Alberta, Canada United States *Cecil, Alabama *Cecil, Georgia * Cecil, Ohio * Cecil, Oregon *Cecil, Pennsylvania *Cecil, West Virginia *Cecil, Wisconsin *Cecil Airport, in Jacksonville, Florida * Cecil County, Maryland Computing and technology * Cecil (programming language), prototype-based programming language *Computer Supported Learning, a learning management system by the University of Auckland, New Zealand Music *Cecil (British band), a band from Liverpool, active 1993-2000 *Cecil (Japanese band), a band from Kajigaya, Japan, active 2000-2006 Other uses *Cecil (lion), a famed lion killed in Zimbabwe in 2015 * Cecil (''Passions''), a minor character from the NBC soap opera ''Passions'' *Cecil (soil), the dominant red clay soil in the Ameri ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Barretville, Tennessee
Barretville is an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, close to the border of Tipton County, and near the community of Rosemark. It has an elevation of 354 feet. The community is locally known for its once large number of domesticated peacocks, originally cared for by Sarah Louisa Barret. Name Barretville is named after the Barret family, one of the earliest families to reside in the area. A census of Civil War veterans that was conducted in 1890 showed a man by the name of Joseph Barret living in the area, while the 1870 United States Census showed multiple individuals of the family living in the community. Unlike the later 1890 census, the individuals listed in the 1870 census were noted with the spelling as Barrett, with an additional "t". History The town was founded by Anthony Barret (1827–1910) in 1852. Anthony's grandson Paul Weisinger Barret, Sr. (1899–1976) founded the Barretville Bank and Trust, which continues to be a f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rhodes College
Rhodes College is a private liberal arts college in Memphis, Tennessee. Historically affiliated with the Presbyterian Church (USA), it is a member of the Associated Colleges of the South and is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools. Rhodes enrolls about 2,000 students, and its Collegiate Gothic campus sits on a 123-acre wooded site in Memphis' historic Midtown neighborhood. History The early origins of Rhodes can be traced to the mid-1830s and the establishment of the all-male Montgomery Academy on the outskirts of Clarksville, Tennessee. The city's flourishing tobacco market and profitable river port made Clarksville one of the fastest-growing cities in the then-western United States and quickly led to calls to turn the modest "log college" into a proper university. In 1848, the Tennessee General Assembly authorized the conveyance of the academy's property for the establishment of the Masonic University of Tennessee. In 1855, control of the university p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosemark, Tennessee
Rosemark is an unincorporated residential and farm community located along Tennessee State Route 14 in northeastern Shelby County, Tennessee, United States. It had a population of 2,315 people in 2010.Rosemark is not a named census unit for the 2010 census, but for the 2000 census it was a census county division (CCD) with a population of 2,261, pe, 0600000US4715792856 U.S. Census Bureau An area of approximately in Rosemark was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013 as the Rosemark Historic District. History Originally known as Richland, a name that probably referred to the fertility of the soil, the Rosemark area was settled as early as the 1830s. The main economic activity in the area was cotton farming. Years later, the community name was changed from Richland to Rosemark after residents learned that another Tennessee community was named Richland, but the Richland name is still used by several community institutions in Rosemark. For most of its history, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wolf River (Tennessee)
The Wolf River is a alluvial river in western Tennessee and northern Mississippi, whose confluence with the Mississippi River was the site of various Chickasaw, French, Spanish and American communities that eventually became Memphis, Tennessee. It is estimated to be about 12,000 years old, formed by Midwestern glacier runoff carving into the region's soft alluvial soil. It should not be confused with The Wolf River (Middle Tennessee) which flows primarily in Middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky. The Wolf River rises in the Holly Springs National Forest at Baker's Pond in Benton County, Mississippi, and flows northwest into Tennessee, before entering the Mississippi River north of downtown Memphis. In 1985, the Wolf River Conservancy was formed in opposition to plans for additional channel dredging. In 1995 the "Ghost River" section of the Wolf was saved from timber auction by a coordinated effort of the Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency, the Tennessee Department of Environ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crittenden County, Arkansas
Crittenden County is a county located in the U.S. state of Arkansas. As of the 2010 census, the population was 50,902. The county seat is Marion, and the largest city is West Memphis. Located in the Arkansas Delta, Crittenden County is Arkansas's 12th county, formed October 22, 1825, and named for Robert Crittenden, the first Secretary of the Arkansas Territory. Crittenden County is part of the Memphis, TN-MS-AR Metropolitan Statistical Area. Most of the county's media comes from Memphis, although some Little Rock TV (Arkansas Educational Television Network, KATV) is imported by Comcast Cable. It lies within Arkansas's 1st congressional district. Geography According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (4.2%) is water. Adjacent counties * Mississippi County (northeast) * Tipton County, Tennessee (east) * Shelby County, Tennessee (east) * DeSoto County, Mississippi (southeast) * Tunica County, Mississippi (south) * Lee County ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
James Lee House (690 Adams Avenue, Memphis)
The James Lee House, also known as the Harsson-Goyer-Lee House, is a historic house at 690 Adams Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, together with the adjacent Woodruff-Fontaine House. The two houses are included in the Victorian Village historic district. The 8,100-square-foot home was constructed by William Harsson in 1848.Sara PattersoJames Lee HouseApril 2011 Abandoned Memphis The Commercial Appeal Harsson's daughter, Laura, married Charles Wesley Goyer, who bought the house in 1852. Goyer had it expanded by the architecture firm of Edward Culliatt Jones and Matthias H. Baldwin in 1871, after seeing their work in designing the neighboring Woodruff-Fontaine House. James Lee, a riverboat captain who had been educated at Princeton University, bought the house in 1890. In 1925 it became the James Lee Memorial Art Academy, a predecessor of the Memphis College of Art (formerly the Memphis Academy of Art). [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
