Sources
- Encyclopædia Britannica Atlans, 1958 Edition, Plate 111.
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Raines was a suburb on the southern boundary of Memphis, Tennessee. It was located between West Junction, Oakville, and on the north of Whitehaven. In 1950 it had a population of 300.
At some point in 1958, it was incorporated into the City of Memphis.[ citation needed ]
One-man-band Joe Hill Louis was born here.
Coordinates: 35°02′05″N90°03′07″W / 35.03472°N 90.05194°W
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Southwest Tennessee Community College is a public community college in Memphis, Tennessee. As the product of a merger between two colleges in 2000, the school has two campuses in Memphis and several satellite centers. It is operated by the Tennessee Board of Regents.
Frayser is a neighborhood on the northside of Memphis, Tennessee, United States. It is named after Memphis physician Dr. J Frayser, who owned a summer home near the railroad. Frayser's boundaries are the Wolf River to the south, the Mississippi River to the west, the Loosahatchie River to the north, and ICRR tracks to the east.
The Memphis Medical District is an area which was created to provide a central location for medical care, serving both Memphis and the Mid-South.
Shuswap Lake Marine Provincial Park is an 896-hectare provincial park in British Columbia, Canada, comprising 991 ha. The Park has a variety of amenities including boat launch ramps, picnic areas, and 27 campsites around the perimeter of Shuswap Lake. The lake's name and that of the surrounding Shuswap Country is from the Shuswap people (Secwepemc), the most northern of the Salishan speaking people.
Memphis Union Station was a passenger terminal in Memphis, Tennessee. It served as a hub between railroads of the Southwest, the Missouri Pacific Railroad and the St. Louis Southwestern Railway, and railroads of the Southeast, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway and the Southern Railway. The terminal, completed in 1912, was built in the Beaux-Arts style and was located on Calhoun Street, between south Second Street and Rayburn Boulevard. It was demolished in 1969. This location in south Memphis was approximately two blocks east of the other major Memphis railroad terminal, Memphis Grand Central Station.
The Memphis Cotton Exchange is located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee, United States, on the corner of Front Street and Union Avenue. It was founded in 1874 as a result of the growing cotton market in Memphis, where trade was strong after the American Civil War. The first Cotton Exchange building was constructed in 1885. It was replaced by the Exchange Building in 1910, which housed it until a newer Cotton Exchange Building was completed in 1925.
Los Cortijos is a municipality in Ciudad Real, Castile-La Mancha, Spain. It has a population of 1,026.
The Memphis Suspension Railway or Mud Island Monorail is a suspended monorail that connects the city center of Memphis with the entertainment park on Mud Island. Celebrating its grand opening on July 3, 1982, it is located beneath a footbridge over the Wolf River Lagoon connecting to the southern tip of Mud Island.
Riverside, is a neighborhood in South Memphis. The neighborhood includes Kansas Street, Carver High and Martin Luther King Riverside Park.
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The City of Memphis is located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the regional hub for a tri-state area of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee.
Juszki is a village in the administrative district of Gmina Kościerzyna, within Kościerzyna County, Pomeranian Voivodeship, in northern Poland. It lies approximately 8 kilometres (5 mi) south of Kościerzyna and 56 km (35 mi) south-west of the regional capital Gdańsk.
Fort Assumption was a French fortification constructed in 1739 on the fourth Chickasaw Bluff on the Mississippi River in Shelby County, present day Memphis, Tennessee. The fort was used as a base against the Chickasaw in the unsuccessful Indian-removal Campaign of 1739.
Nonconnah, Tennessee was a populated place along Nonconnah Creek in what is now Memphis.
Westwood is a neighborhood located in southern Memphis, Tennessee, United States, west of Whitehaven. The neighborhood is home to recreational facilities, businesses, schools and churches; including the more than 4,000 member Mt. Vernon Baptist Church. Westwood/ Charles Powell Community Center, Westwood Shopping Center, Freedom Preparatory Academy-Westwood Elementary and Westwood High School are focal-points of the community. Double Tree Montessori School is west of Weaver Road and south of Western Park Drive.
Odžaci is a village in the municipality of Trstenik, Serbia. According to the 2002 census, the village has a population of 1562 people.
The Church of the River, located in Memphis, Tennessee, is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Association, a liberal religious tradition. Services are held each Sunday at 11:00 a.m. Contemporary Unitarian churches have no creeds to which members must agree. Each congregation has its own covenant, sometimes called a bond of fellowship or statement of purpose, which describes the spirit of how members are united in religious community. The Church of the River covenant states:
The purpose of this church shall be to promote the high ideals of a rational, progressive, and exalting religion, in the love of God and service to humanity, and to hold regular church services in this community. To this end, all activities of the church shall be conducted without distinction related to race, color, sexual orientation, gender identity or previous religious affiliations; and the right of private judgment and the sacredness of individual conviction shall be recognized in all things. To join our church is to walk with other members of the congregation in the spirit of our covenant.
Boxtown is a neighborhood in South Memphis, Tennessee. The neighborhood, which is near T.O. Fuller State Park, is also the oldest in South Memphis. Boxtown includes White's Chapel AME Church, which was built in 1890. Boxtown has numerous shotgun houses.
Northaven is an unincorporated community located in north Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, that is a part of the Memphis metropolitan area. Tennessee State Route 388 connects Northaven with Frayser and Shelby Forest. This is also the location of the famous 1994 Tony von Carruthers case where he shot his mother, her teenage associate and his drug dealer. The neighborhood is known for crime and blight. The Mississippi River Trail runs through the neighborhood.
Wilson, is an unincorporated community in Okmulgee County, Oklahoma, located about 7 miles northwest of the center of Henryetta, Oklahoma, located off Wilson Road. This is not to be confused with the Wilson in Carter County, Oklahoma southeast of Healdton nor the Wilson in Pushmataha County, Oklahoma.