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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25UT_ohio-river_Memphis-TN.html
Winding 981 miles to Cairo, Illinois from Pittsburg, Pennsylvania head, the Ohio has been an Important force in American's history and its economy. Pioneers made it the highroad to western expansion after the American Revolution. The Ohio Valley's…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25UR_tennessee-river-cumberland-river_Memphis-TN.html
Tennessee River Originally one of the wildest rivers east of the Mississippi, the Tennessee has become a major waterway in the southeastern United States. From headwaters above Knoxville, Tennessee the Tennessee first flows south on a U-shap…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25UQ_reelfoot-lake_Memphis-TN.html
A tremendous earthquake struck this region on December 16, 1811, beginning a three-month series of violent quakes that devastated over 40,000 square miles. Named for the largest settlement in the region, the New Madrid earthquakes altered local ge…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25UO_island-no-20-cottonwood-point-booth-point-tennessee-linwood-bend_Memphis-TN.html
A) Island No. 20 Mile 8290 AHP The wondering geography of Island No. 20 illustrates the Mississippi River's erratic nature. Navigation charts of 1801 show the island lying near the west bank. Later, the river moved and placed the island close …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25UG_cairo-illinois_Memphis-TN.html
Cairo's position at the confluence of the Upper Mississippi and Ohio made it an important river and rail junction in the steamboat era. Changes in America's shipping patterns reduced its role in the 20th Century but it remains an active port and i…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM25SM_ernest-c-withers-house_Memphis-TN.html
Ernest C. Withers (1922-2007) began his career as a photographer in the U. S. Army during World War II. Upon leaving the military, he opened a commercial photography studio and worked as a freelance photojournalist for Black newspapers and magazin…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM220C_congregation-b-nai-israel_Memphis-TN.html
Jews have been a part of Tennessee's economic, social and political life since the early 19th century. Congregation Children of Israel, chartered by the State of Tennessee on March 2, 1854, rented and eventually purchased a building near this site…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21PJ_this-chimney-swift-tower_Memphis-TN.html
This chimney swift tower celebrates the work of Ben and Lula Coffey who directed members of the Tennessee Ornithological Society, Boy Scouts, and others in banding 113,000 swifts from 1932 to 1959. Rediscovery of six of the bands in Peru helped to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21MX_beale-street-2_Memphis-TN.html
First there was a slope of woodland that met the Mississippi River. Chickasaw Indians hunted there until the early 19th century. Then there was Beale Street. It began as the main road of South Memphis and by 1850, when that separate town was conso…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM21GO_raiding-the-rails_Germantown-TN.html
During the Civil War, the railroad in front of you was the Memphis & Charleston Railroad. Union forces occupied the area soon after the April 1862 Battle of Shiloh and the capture of Memphis on June 6. they used the railroad to transport troops an…
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