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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLQ8_eugene-magevney_Memphis-TN.html
Born in County Fermanagh, Ireland, 1798: immigrated to the United States, 1828;settled in Memphis, 1833.His home was the scene of three important religious occasions in Memphis:first Catholic mass, 1839; first Catholic marriage, 1840;first Catholi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLQ7_forrests-early-home_Memphis-TN.html
In a house which stood here in antebellum days lived Nathan Bedford Forrest. Born in middle Tennessee, 1821, he spent his early life on a Mississippi plantation. Following marriage in 1845, he came to Memphis, where his business enterprises made h…
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St. Peter's was founded in 1840, the first Roman Catholic parish in West Tennessee and given to the Dominican Order in 1846. The present church was built 1852~1855 around a smaller church which was then dismantled and carried out the doors. Within…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLQ5_calvary-protestant-episcopal-church_Memphis-TN.html
The oldest public building in Memphis and the first Episcopal Church in Shelby County. Organized August 6, 1832 by the Reverend Thomas Wright.The church house started 1838 was consecrated May 12, 1844 by the Right Reverend James Hervey Otey, first…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLQ3_hooks-brothers-photography_Memphis-TN.html
Side AEstablished by Henry A. Hooks, Sr. and his brother Robert B. Hooks, Hooks Brothers Photography Studio was the second oldest continuously operating black business in Memphis. Located during its early years at 164 Beale Street, it next moved t…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLPZ_the-blues-trail-from-mississippi-to-memphis_Memphis-TN.html
The bright lights of Beale Street and the promise of musical stardom have lured blues musicians from nearby Mississippi since the early 1900s. Early Memphis blues luminaries who migrated from Mississippi include Gus Cannon, Furry Lewis, Jim Jackso…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8YP_wlok-radio-station_Memphis-TN.html
In 1977 WLOK became Memphis' first African-American owned radio station. Established on this site, Gilliam Communications' WLOK is a family-oriented format on which many of the nation's top African-American leaders have appeared. Several of the na…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM8X1_nat-d-williams_Memphis-TN.html
In 1948, Nat D. Williams became the first black radio announcer in Memphis when he began broadcasting for WDIA. He was a cofounder of the Cotton Makers Jubilee and is credited with giving the celebration its name. A history teacher in the Memphis …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5XR_ida-b-wells_Memphis-TN.html
Ida B. Wells crusaded against lynchings in Memphis and the South. In 1892 while editor of the Memphis Free Speech, located in this vicinity, she wrote of the lynching of three Black businessmen. As a result, her newspaper office was destroyed and …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM5XP_alfred-goldsboro-mayor_Memphis-FL.html
Alfred Goldsboro Mayor, who studied the biology of many seas and here founded a laboratory for research for the Carnegie Institution directing it for XVIII years with conspicuous success, brilliant versatile courageous utterly forgetful of self. H…