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Memphis was founded on May 22, 1819 by a group of investors, John Overton, James Winchester, and Andrew Jackson, [15] [16] and was incorporated as a city in 1826. [17] The city was named after the ancient capital of Egypt on the Nile River , itself named Memphis in Greek after the Egyptian name Mennefer for the Pyramid complex of pharaoh Pepi I ...
47-48000 [6] Website. City of Memphis. Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the county seat of Shelby County, in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, [7] Memphis is the second-most populous city in Tennessee after Nashville.
Orange Mound, Memphis. Coordinates: 35.1078°N 89.9720°W. O-Mound mural. Orange Mound, a neighborhood in southeastern Memphis, Tennessee, was the first US neighborhood to be built by and for African Americans. [1][failed verification][dubious – discuss] Built on the grounds of the former Deaderick plantation, the Orange Mound subdivision was ...
Nashville, Tennessee Founded in 1873, the Vanderbilt campus — with its nearly 200 species of trees and shrubs — is a designated National Arboretum. ... Memphis, Tennessee ... the city's oldest ...
The University of Maryland, College Park (University of Maryland, UMD, or simply Maryland) is a public land-grant research university in College Park, Maryland. [9] Founded in 1856, UMD is the flagship institution of the University System of Maryland. [10] UMD is the largest university in both the state and the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan ...
Mary Church was born in the year of 1863 in Memphis, Tennessee, to Robert Reed Church and Louisa Ayres, [2] both freed slaves of mixed racial ancestry. Her parents were prominent members of the Black elite of Memphis after the Civil War, during the Reconstruction Era. Her father, Robert Reed Church, was a businessman who became one of the first ...
"Welcome to Memphis" sign on U.S. Route 51 (2008). Memphis, Tennessee has a long history of distinctive contributions to the culture of the American South and beyond. Although it is an important part of the culture of Tennessee, the history, arts, and cuisine of Memphis are more closely associated with the culture of the Deep South (particularly the Mississippi Delta) than the rest of the state.
Terrebonne Parish ("Good Land") Timbalier Island (" timpani player") Tulane/Gravier New Orleans neighborhood named after Paul Tulane, philanthropist and son of Louis Tulane, a French immigrant. Vacherie ("Cowshed") Verdun. Versailles. Vieux Carré ("Old Square") also known as the French Quarter in New Orleans.