History of the city of Memphis, Tennessee
The following is a
timeline of the
history of the city of
Memphis ,
Tennessee , US.
Prior to 19th century
1739 –
Fort Assumption built by French.
1740 – Fort Assumption abandoned.
1797 – U.S. fort built.
[1]
19th century
The original plan for Memphis, as surveyed in 1819.
1819 – Town laid out.
1826 – Town incorporated.
1827
Memphis Advocate newspaper begins publication.
[4]
Marcus B. Winchester becomes mayor.
1836 – Memphis Enquirer newspaper begins publication.
[4]
1841 –
The Appeal newspaper begins publication.
1843
New Orleans-Memphis telegraph begins operating.
Memphis Daily Eagle newspaper begins publication.
[4]
1844 –
Calvary Episcopal Church consecrated.
1849 – Memphis incorporated as a city.
[1]
1850
1852 –
Elmwood Cemetery established.
1853 –
Congregation B'nai Israel founded.
1854 – Jones & Co. chemists in business.
1855 – German Benevolent Society formed.
1857 –
Memphis & Charleston Railroad completed.
1858 –
Memphis Daily Avalanche newspaper begins publication.
[4]
1860 –
Population : 22,623.
[9]
1861 – Memphis and Ohio Railroad completed.
[10]
1862
1864
1866
May:
Racial unrest .
Greenwood School established.
Memphis Post begins publication.
Historic aerial view of Memphis (1870)
Plan of the Memphis sewer system in 1880
1880
1882
Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church established.
[14]
Chickasaw Cooperage Company incorporated.
1883 – Young Men's Christian Association chartered.
1885 –
Peoples Grocery in business.
1887 – Memphis National Bank organized.
1890
1891 – City chartered again.
1892 –
Frisco Bridge (a cantilevered through truss bridge) constructed.
[6]
1899 – Manassas High School established.
1900 –
Population : 102,320.
[9]
20th century
1900s–1940s
Mississippi riverboats (1906)
Map of Memphis in 1911
1950s–1990s
Lorraine Motel , site of the 1968 Martin Luther King, Jr. assassination
21st century
Memphis skyline as seen from Poplar Avenue (2010)
See also
References
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"History - Memphis Storm Water" . City of Memphis Storm Water Program . Retrieved January 6, 2018 .
^ James T. Haley, ed. (1895),
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^ National League on Urban Conditions Among Negroes (1912), "Establishment of Branch Organizations in the Several Cities", Bulletin , vol. 2,
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"Memphis, May 22, A.D., 1917" .
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"(Roddy's Citizens' Co-operative Stores)" . The Crisis . 19 (2). National Association for the Advancement of Colored People. December 1919.
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^ Michael Kirby (1998), "Vollintine-Evergreen, Memphis", Cityscape , 4 (2): 61–87,
JSTOR
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^ R. Serge Denisoff (1975). Solid Gold: The Popular Record Industry . Transaction Publishers.
ISBN
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"Privately Contracted Penal Facilities" . History and Politics of Private Prisons .
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"Death Toll at 9 in Memphis Tanker Explosion" . The New York Times . Associated Press. December 25, 1988. Retrieved January 12, 2021 .
^ Michael S. Isner (February 6, 1990).
Fire Investigation Report: Propane Tank Truck Incident, Eight People Killed, Memphis, Tennessee, December 23, 1988 (Report). National Fire Protection Association. Archived from
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"Meet Paul Young, Memphis's next mayor" . localmemphis.com . October 5, 2023. Retrieved 2023-10-06 .
Bibliography
Published in 19th century
"Memphis" , Kimball & James' Business Directory for the Mississippi Valley , Cincinnati: Printed by Kendall & Barnard, 1844
"Memphis" . Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1860–61 . Nashville: John L. Mitchell. 1860.
Denson's Memphis Directory, for 1865 . A. Clark Denson. 1865.
"Memphis" . Commercial Directory of the Western States . St. Louis: Richard Edwards. 1867.
"Mississippi River: Memphis" . James' River Guide ... Mississippi Valley . Cincinnati: U.P. James. 1871.
Joseph Buckner Killebrew ;
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"Shelby County; County Seat: Memphis" , Introduction to the Resources of Tennessee , vol. 2, Nashville: Tavel, Eastman & Howell
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"Memphis" . Tennessee State Gazetteer and Business Directory for 1876-7 . Nashville: R.L. Polk & Co. 1876.
Commercial and Statistical Review of the City of Memphis , Reilley & Thomas, 1883
Directory of the Taxing District of Memphis . Memphis, Tenn.: C.F. Weatherbe. 1883.
"Memphis (2.)" .
Encyclopædia Britannica . Vol. 15 (9th ed.). 1883.
J.M. Keating (1888).
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Memphis, Merchants' Exchange of (1888),
Annual Statement of the Trade and Commerce of Memphis, Tenn. ... Reported to the Memphis Merchants' Exchange
James Phelan (1888),
"Memphis" , History of Tennessee , Boston: Houghton, Mifflin
Published in 20th century
G.P. Hamilton (1908).
Bright Side of Memphis: A Compendium of Information Concerning the Colored People of Memphis, Tennessee . Memphis. {{
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"Memphis" , United States (4th ed.), Leipzig: K. Baedeker, 1909,
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02338437
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John Preston Young, ed. (1912), Standard history of Memphis, Tennessee , Knoxville, Tenn: H.W. Crew,
OCLC
850900 ,
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6553910M
Federal Writers' Project (1939), "Memphis", Tennessee: a Guide to the State ,
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Tennessee Historical Records Survey (1941),
"Shelby County (Memphis)" , Directory of Churches, Missions, and Religious Institutions of Tennessee , no. 79, Nashville
Ory Mazar Nergal, ed. (1980), "Memphis", Encyclopedia of American Cities , New York:
E.P. Dutton ,
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Michael K. Honey (1993),
Southern Labor and Black Civil Rights: Organizing Memphis Workers , Urbana: University of Illinois Press,
ISBN
0252020006
George Thomas Kurian (1994),
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Published in 21st century
Ernest Withers. Memphis Blues Again. Viking Studio, 2001.
"Memphis: Mecca on the Mississippi" , Ebony , October 2002
Stephanie Gilmore (2003). "Dynamics of Second-Wave Feminist Activism in Memphis, 1971–1982: Rethinking the Liberal/Radical Divide". National Women's Studies Association Journal . 15 (1): 94–117.
JSTOR
4316946 .
John Branston. Rowdy Memphis. Brentwood, Tennessee: Cold Tree Press, 2004.
Richard Pillsbury, ed. (2006). "Memphis". Geography . New Encyclopedia of Southern Culture . Vol. 2. University of North Carolina Press. p. 176.
OCLC
910189354 .
David Goldfield , ed. (2007). "Memphis, Tennessee".
Encyclopedia of American Urban History . Sage.
ISBN
978-1-4522-6553-7 .
Sharon D. Wright. Race, Power, and Political Emergence in Memphis. Taylor and Francis, 2007.
Photographs from the Memphis World, 1949–1964 . Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. 2008.
ISBN
978-0915525102 .
Wanda Rushing (2009).
"Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, and Biotechnology" .
Southern Spaces .
doi :
10.18737/M7MW37 .
Raj Chetty ; Nathaniel Hendren (2015),
City Rankings, Commuting Zones: Causal Effects of the 100 Largest Commuting Zones on Household Income in Adulthood , Equality of Opportunity Project, Harvard University, archived from
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Gail Schmunk Murray (2017). "Taming the War on Poverty: Memphis as a Case Study".
Journal of Urban History . 43 .
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