Ellendale is an

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in Shelby County,

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, United States, in the Memphis metropolitan area.

History

The first railroad to Shelby County was the Memphis & Ohio Railroad, stretching from Memphis to

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in 1856. In 1872, the Louisville & Nashville, or L&N Railroad, bought the Memphis & Ohio Railroad and sponsored a contest to rename the community near Bond's Station depot. "Ellendale" was chosen as a play-on-words of the abbreviation L&N. According to a source, it appears that Ellendale was eventually annexed by Bartlett in 1977.

Location

Ellendale appears on the

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map, bordered on the north by the community of Brunswick, on the west by the neighborhood of

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, on the south by the city of

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, and on the east by the city of Lakeland. Ellendale has a

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with ZIP code 38029.ZIP Code Lookup
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Demographics

Ellendale has a population of 25,882 with a density of 2,051 per square mile. The median age is 35.

References

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