Chickasaw Gardens

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Walking path along Chickasaw Gardens Lake.

Chickasaw Gardens is an established upscale neighborhood in midtown Memphis, Tennessee.

Memphis, Tennessee City in Tennessee, United States

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Geography

Chickasaw Gardens is located between Central and Poplar Avenues, near the center of the Interstate 240 loop. The Memphis Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium, the Central Library of the Memphis Public Library System, and the University of Memphis are nearby.

Interstate 240 (I-240) is a 19.27-mile-long (31.01 km) Auxiliary Interstate Highway in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It forms a loop with its parent I-40 around the eastern neighborhoods of Memphis. It travels from an interchange with I-40 east of downtown to an interchange with I-40, US 79, and Sam Cooper Boulevard in East Memphis, providing access to Memphis International Airport and the eastern neighborhoods. The section in East Memphis around Walnut Grove Road is the busiest interstate in Tennessee, with an AADT of just under 200,000 vehicles. The western leg of I-240 has been approved to be signed as I-69.

University of Memphis public research university in Memphis, Tennessee, USA

The University of Memphis, colloquially known as U of M, is a public research university in Memphis, Tennessee. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 21,000 students.

Setting

Chickasaw Gardens features a lake, sometimes called Memphis Lake or Chickasaw Gardens Lake, home to ducks and other birds. There is a concrete path leading around the west side. Neither fishing nor boats are allowed.

Running parallel to the lake is a ditch, along the west side of the lake. It is surrounded by a fence. The west end goes to Orange Mound and under Central Avenue, while the east end goes under Poplar Avenue and beside the East High School football and track field. Crossing the ditch, there are vehicular bridges and a foot bridge — closer to the southeastern side of the lake, right beside the south car bridge.

Orange Mound, Memphis human settlement in United States of America

Orange Mound, a neighborhood located in southeast Memphis, Tennessee, was the first African-American neighborhood in Memphis to be built by African Americans.

Most of the streets in Chickasaw Gardens are named after different Native American tribes. Examples include Catawba Lane, Iroquois Road, Chickasaw Parkway, and Natchez Lane.

Native Americans in the United States Indigenous peoples of the United States (except Hawaii)

Native Americans, also known as American Indians, Indigenous Americans and other terms, are the indigenous peoples of the United States, except Hawaii. There are over 500 federally recognized tribes within the US, about half of which are associated with Indian reservations. The term "American Indian" excludes Native Hawaiians and some Alaska Natives, while Native Americans are American Indians, plus Alaska Natives of all ethnicities. Native Hawaiians are not counted as Native Americans by the US Census, instead being included in the Census grouping of "Native Hawaiian and other Pacific Islander".

In anthropology, a tribe is a human social group. Exact definitions of what constitutes a tribe vary among anthropologists, and the term is itself considered controversial in academic circles in part due to its association with colonialism. In general use, the term may refer to people perceived by a population to be primitive and may have negative connotations. The concept is often contrasted with other social groups concepts, such as nations, states, and forms of kinship.

Iroquois Northeast Native American confederacy

The Iroquois or Haudenosaunee are a historically powerful northeast Native American confederacy. They were known during the colonial years to the French as the Iroquois League, and later as the Iroquois Confederacy, and to the English as the Five Nations, comprising the Mohawk, Onondaga, Oneida, Cayuga, and Seneca. After 1722, they accepted the Tuscarora people from the Southeast into their confederacy and became known as the Six Nations.

History

Chickasaw Gardens is located on land that was originally part of the estate of Clarence Saunders, the Memphis inventor of the first self-service grocery store named 'Piggly Wiggly'. The Chickasaw Gardens lake was originally constructed as part of an elaborate garden with rustic bridges and a playhouse for Saunders' children. Saunders lost his fortune in 1923 during the stock market crash, and the estate was sold to developers. [1]

Clarence Saunders (grocer) American grocer

Clarence Saunders was an American grocer who first developed the modern retail sales model of self service. His ideas have had a massive influence on the development of the modern supermarket. Saunders worked for most of his life trying to develop a truly automated store, developing Piggly Wiggly, Keedoozle, and Foodelectric store concepts.

A number of the houses in the neighborhood were designed by prominent Memphis architect George Mahan. [2]

Movies

The Firm , the 1993 film based on a John Grisham novel, has many scenes filmed in Memphis. The home used for the residence of the main characters is in a different neighborhood, Belle Meade. [3]

21 Grams , which featured Sean Penn and Naomi Watts and was nominated for two Academy Awards, was partially shot in a Chickasaw Gardens house. [4]

Chickasaw Gardens Home Owners Association website.

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References

  1. Lauderdale, V. Ask Vance. Bluff City Books, Memphis, 2003, p. 16.
  2. George Mahan: Architect of the Rich and Fancy Archived September 27, 2007, at the Wayback Machine .
  3. Hollywood in Memphis
  4. 21 Grams film locations. The Worldwide Guide to Movie Locations: Exploring film locations around the world.

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