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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1OKM_the-memphis-13-rozelle-elementary-school_Memphis-TN.html
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The first African-American students to enroll in Rozelle Elementary School were E.C. Freeman, Joyce Bell, Clarence Williams, and Leandrew Wiggens. Mattie Freeman, mother of E.C. Freemanm, said, "It would be foolish to send my little 6-yea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1NGR_heiskell-farm_Memphis-TN.html
Joseph B. Heiskell obtained a farm surrounding this location about 1867. He was Chairman of Code Commission of 1858 establishing the first official Code of Tennessee, member of the First Confederate Congress 1862, member of Convention of 1870 crea…
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On the evening of July 12, 1935, in the garden behind this house, the Garden Players under the direction of Arthur Scharff performed Tennessee Williams' first staged play "Cairo, Shanghai, Bombay." Bernice D. Shapiro was listed as co-author, and A…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1KUW_mt-moriah-baptist-church_Memphis-TN.html
Mt. Moriah was founded in 1879. The oldest church in the area, it was relocated to this site in 1893, predating the Orange Mound community by seven years. A vernacular-sandstone building, the present edifice was completed in 1926, during the pasto…
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Orange Mound, developed as Negro subdivision at the turn of the century, was formerly a 5000 acre plantation owned by John George Deaderick. Bounded by the Southern Railway on the north, Airways on the west, Park on the South, and Goodwyn on the e…