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Shelby Farms is a public park located in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, in East Memphis.It is one of the largest urban parks in the US and the world, at a size of 4,500 acres (1,800 ha) and covers more than five times the area of Central Park in New York City with 843 acres (341 ha).
Tennessee has 59 designated state parks, operated by the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation (TDEC). The largest park, Justin P. Wilson Cumberland Trail, is made up of land along the Cumberland Trail, stretching from Cumberland Gap at the Virginia state line to Prentice Cooper State Forest in Marion County, just northwest of Chattanooga. [1]
The park's central feature is 35-acre (140,000 m 2) Travis McNatt Lake. The namesake Big Hill Pond was formed by excavation in 1853 as a borrow pit that was a source for soil used to build a levee across the Tuscumbia and Cypress Creek bottoms for the Memphis and Charleston Railroad .
What’s the big deal about D.C.’s cherry blossom trees? In 1912, Tokyo’s Mayor Yukio Osaki sent trees to Helen Taft, the wife of then-president William Taft as a gift of goodwill from Japan ...
It is home to Bowie Nature Park which, at approximately 722 acres (2.92 km 2), is one of the largest city-managed parks in the state of Tennessee. As a comparison, New York's Central Park is 843 acres (3.41 km 2). Fairview has two Elementary Schools, Fairview, and Westwood serving over 1,000 students with grades K-5.
The Tennessee Historical Commission, which manages the state's participation in the National Register program, reports that 80 percent of the state's area has been surveyed for historic buildings. Surveys for archaeological sites have been less extensive; coverage is estimated less than 5 percent of the state.
Here's a look at nine notable historic buildings in Memphis and where development and renovation plans are for those sites. ... 2023 at the Melrose High at 843 Dallas Street in Memphis, Tenn ...
This list of notable botanical gardens and arboreta in Tennessee is intended to include all significant botanical gardens and arboretums in the U.S. state of Tennessee [1] [2] [3] Name Image