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Orange Mound, a neighborhood in southeastern Memphis, Tennessee, was the first US neighborhood to be built by African Americans. [ 1 ] [ failed verification ] [ dubious – discuss ] Built on the grounds of the former Deaderick plantation, the Orange Mound subdivision was developed for African Americans in the 1890s to provide affordable land ...
In May 2022, the Memphis and Shelby County Land use and Control Board approved plans to convert the site into a 126-unit apartment building. Parkview was built in 1923 as a 165-room apartment hotel.
Gangs in the Memphis area are concentrated in high crime black neighborhoods like College Park, Hollywood, Hickory Hill, Parkway Village, Westwood, Raleigh, Frayser, Orange Mound, Whitehaven, Binghampton, Klondike and Smokey City; their presence is also felt in the suburbs of Tipton County, Tennessee.
Memphis Office of Youth Services Director Brian Harris speaks to community members during a meeting organized by the Orange Mound Collaborative Group in response to continuing gun violence.
The two people who were killed during a mass shooting at an Orange Mound block party Saturday evening were 17 and 22 years old, the Memphis Police Department said Monday.
The W. C. Handy Theatre was located at 2355 Park Avenue in the Orange Mound neighborhood of southeast Memphis. [3] The 1,275-capacity theater cost $200,000 to build. [4] In the lobby, there was a milk bar for theater patrons and transient passers-by. [5] There was a stage for top African-American entertainers to perform at the venue. [6]
Eight people were shot, and two are dead, after a mass shooting in Orange Mound Saturday evening, the Memphis Police Department said in a social media post that amended the initial number of victims.
SR 277 begins as a signed secondary highway at an intersection with Lamar Avenue (US 78/SR 4) and Airways Boulevard in the Orange Mound community and continues north as Airways. It intersects the Memphis Parkway System and turns into East Parkway.