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White Station is a neighborhood in the east section of
"The seven cities absorbed by Memphis."
West Tennessee Historical Papers Vol. 8, p. 96 (1954). Also during the 1950s, White Station was annexed into Memphis and became one of the main neighborhoods of
White Station is a neighborhood in the east section of 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, and is known for White Station High School
White Station High School is a four-year state school, public Secondary education in the United States, high school located in Memphis, Tennessee. White Station High is a member of the Shelby County Schools (Tennessee), Shelby County Schools syst ...
.History
White Station was located near the former site of ''White's Station'' (namesake also ofWhitehaven
Whitehaven is a town and civil parish in the Cumberland (unitary authority), Cumberland district of Cumbria, England. It is a port on the north-west coast, and lies outside the Lake District National parks of England and Wales, National Park. ...
), an historic railway station built in 1842 on the ''LaGrange and Memphis Railroad'' (later part of the Memphis and Charleston Railroad
The Memphis and Charleston Railroad, completed in 1857, was the first railroad in the United States to link the Atlantic Ocean with the Mississippi River. Chartered in 1846, the gauge railroad ran from Memphis, Tennessee, to Stevenson, Alabama ...
), now part of the Norfolk Southern Railway
The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company was formed in 1982 with the merger of the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. The comp ...
. Until the 1950s White Station was near the eastern boundary of Memphis.Bejach, Lois"The seven cities absorbed by Memphis."
West Tennessee Historical Papers Vol. 8, p. 96 (1954). Also during the 1950s, White Station was annexed into Memphis and became one of the main neighborhoods of
East Memphis
East Memphis is a region of Memphis, Tennessee with several defined and informal subdivisions and neighborhoods such as Colonial Acres, White Station, Memphis, White Station-Yates, Memphis, Yates, Sherwood Forest, Memphis, Sherwood Forest, Nor ...
.Sources
*''Encyclopædia Britannica Atlas'', 1958 Edition, Plate 152. *''World book'', 1967 edition, Vol. 18, p. 113.References