Nutbush is a long-standing neighborhood in northeastern

Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is a city in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and its county seat. Situated along the Mississippi River, it had a population of 633,104 at the 2020 United States census, 2020 census, making it the List of municipalities in Tenne ...

, United States.

Geography

Nutbush is bordered by

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and Jackson Avenue to the north; Wells Station to the east; Macon Avenue to the south, and Homer Street to the west. It is adjacent to the city's Kingsbury neighborhood.

National Cemetery

The

Memphis National Cemetery Memphis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the Nutbush neighborhood in northeast Memphis, Tennessee. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses , and as of the end of 2007, h ...

is located in Nutbush, Memphis. On 44.2

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(0.18 km²), the cemetery had 42,184 interments at the end of 2007. Several battlefield cemeteries from the

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era were transferred to Memphis and many of the dead from the steamboat ''Sultana'' explosion on April 26, 1865, were buried in Memphis National Cemetery.

References

Neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee {{ShelbyCountyTN-geo-stub

Geography

National Cemetery

See also

References