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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).
Cotton Row Historic District defines the center of the Mid-South Cotton Agri-business. From 1826, the first cotton arrived. These 300 bales were brought by wagon. Even today, cotton is important to Memphis.
Memphis is a center for media and entertainment, notably a historic music scene. [14] With blues clubs on Beale Street originating the unique Memphis blues sound, the city has been nicknamed the "Home of the Blues". Its music has continued to be shaped by a multicultural mix of influences: country, rock and roll, soul, and hip-hop. [citation ...
Mike and Hayley Jones pose with eight of their 11 children at the James E. Ward Agriculture Center in Lebanon, Tenn., after their daughter, Gabrielle, graduated from Cumberland University on May 4 ...
This list of museums in Tennessee encompasses museums defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
The city of Memphis It is the regional hub for a tri-state area of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee. The city center is located on the Mississippi river at the site of the earliest settlements. Interstate 40 enters the city from the northeast, and loops above the central part of the city, exiting across the Mississippi River and traveling to ...
Bill Best, an 88-year-old seed conservationist and founder of the Sustainable Mountain Agriculture Center, Inc. has been preserving beans for nearly 70 years. Gabrynowicz said Best, nicknamed the ...
The Bartlesville High School Class of 1984 gathered Saturday to tour the ever-changing and sprawling school campus for their fortieth reunion.