Riverside, Memphis

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Riverside is a neighborhood in South Memphis. The neighborhood includes Kansas Street, Carver High (which is on Pennsylvania Street) and Martin Luther King Riverside Park.

The main boundary of Riverside is South Parkway, which is on the north.

Notable people

Harold Ford Jr., U.S. Representative from 1997 to 2007
Eric Jerome Dickey, author
Craig Petties, convicted drug trafficker

References

DeCosta-Willis, Miriam (2008). Notable Black Memphians

City of Memphis and Memphis metropolitan area (counties in TN, MS and AR)

Topics

Districts

Neighborhoods

Metro area
landmarks

Tennessee	A. Schwab's Art Museum of the University of Memphis Bartlett Museum Beale Street Bellevue Baptist Church Belz Museum Botanic Garden Brooks Museum Burkle Estate Central Station Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception Chickasaw Bluff Children's Museum Chucalissa Museum Cotton Museum Davies Manor Dixon Gallery and Gardens Downtown Trolleys Elmwood Cemetery Fire Museum Fort Assumption Fort Wright Graceland Hernando de Soto Bridge Libertyland Lichterman Nature Center Lincoln American Tower Magevney House Mallory–Neely House Mason Temple Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park Memorial Park Cemetery Cotton Exchange Memphis International Airport National Cemetery Parkway System Railroad & Trolley Museum Memphis Zoo Mississippi River Mississippi River Park Mud Island Monorail National Civil Rights Museum National Ornamental Metal Museum Oaklawn Garden Orpheum Theatre Overton Park Peabody Hotel Pink Palace The Pyramid Rhodes College Rock N' Soul Museum St. Jude Children's Research Hospital St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral Shelby Farms Stax Museum Sun Studio South Main Arts District Temple Israel Tennessee Brewery Tipton County Museum T. O. Fuller State Park Tom Lee Park Union Station University of Memphis Victorian Village Wolf River
Mississippi	Arkabutla Lake BankPlus Amphitheater at Snowden Grove DeSoto County Museum 1st Jackpot Casino Gold Strike Tunica Holly Springs National Forest Landers Center Horseshoe Casino Mississippi River Resorts Casino Sam's Town Gambling Hall Southaven Towne Center Tunica Resorts Snowden Grove Park Tanger Outlets Southaven Tunica Roadhouse Casino Wall Doxey State Park
Arkansas	Horseshoe Lake Mississippi River Southland Park Gaming and Racing Wapanocca National Wildlife Refuge

Metro area
suburbs

Tennessee	Arlington Atoka Bartlett Collierville Covington Germantown Lakeland Millington Munford Northaven Oakland Piperton Somerville Shelby Forest
Mississippi	Byhalia Hernando Holly Springs Horn Lake Olive Branch Senatobia Southaven Tunica Tunica Resorts (Robinsonville) Walls
Arkansas	Earle Marion West Memphis

Metro area
counties

Tennessee	Shelby Fayette Tipton
Mississippi	DeSoto Marshall Tate Tunica
Arkansas	Crittenden

35°05′57″N90°04′11″W / 35.0992°N 90.0698°W / 35.0992; -90.0698

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