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Memphis ou Mênfis [3] é a segunda cidade mais populosa [4] [5] do estado do Tennessee, atrás de Nashville. Localiza-se no sudoeste do estado e figura entre as 50 maiores cidades do país. Com mais de 633 mil habitantes na cidade e quase 1,4 milhão de pessoas na região metropolitana, de acordo com o censo nacional de 2020 , [ 2 ...
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Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County, in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, [7] Memphis is the second-most populous city in Tennessee after Nashville . Memphis is the fifth-most populous ...
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From about 10,000 BCE, Paleo-Indians and later Archaic-Indians lived as communities of hunter-gatherers in the area that covers the modern-day southern United States. Approximately 800 CE to 1600 CE, the Mississippi River Delta was populated by tribes of the Mississippian culture, a mound-building Native American people who had developed in the lat...
Foundation - 1819
The area of West Tennessee became available for white settlement after the Federal Government purchased it from the Chickasaw Nation in the 1818 Jackson Purchase. Memphis was founded on May 22, 1819 by a group of investors, John Overton, James Winchester, and Andrew Jackson, and was incorporated as a city in 1826. The city was named after the ancient capital of Egypt on the Nile River, itself named Memphis in Greek after the Egyptian name Mennefer for the Pyramid complex of pharaoh Pepi I. Th...
Competing towns: Hopefield, AR and Randolph, TN
Hopefield, Arkansas was founded by the Spanish Governor in 1795, across from Memphis near present-day West Memphis, Arkansas. Hopefield became the eastern terminal for the Memphis and Little Rock Railroad in 1857 and prospered until the Civil War. It was burned by Union forces in retaliation for Confederate Raids. Although Hopefield was rebuilt afterward, it was destroyed in a flood. The area of Crittenden County, Arkansas has been subject to some of the country's most disastrous floods, due...
Civil War
At the time of the American Civil War, Memphis was already an important regional city because of its river trade and railroad connections, particularly the Memphis and Charleston Railroad, the only east–west rail link across the South. Tennessee seceded from the Union in June 1861 and Memphis briefly became a Confederatestronghold. Union forces moving down the Mississippi River captured Memphis from the Confederacy in the Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862. The city remained under Union contro...
Business development
Memphis developed as the world's largest spot cotton market and the world's largest hardwood lumber market, both commodity products of the Mississippi Delta. Into the 1950s, it was the world's largest mule market.Attracting workers from rural areas as well as new immigrants, from 1900 to 1950 the city increased nearly fourfold in population, from 102,350 to 396,000 residents. Memphis developed an extensive network of parks and public works as part of the national City Beautiful Movement. The...
Crump machine
From the 1910s to the 1950s, Memphis was a locus of machine politics under the direction of E. H. "Boss" Crump, a Democrat. He obtained a state law in 1911 to establish a small commission to manage the city. The city retained a form of commission government until 1967 But Crump was in full control at all times, Using all the familiar techniques of the big city boss, who is willing to engage in ballot manipulation, patronage for friends, and frustrating bureaucratic obstacles for the oppositio...
World War II - 1950s
During the Second World War, the War Department constructed large supply depots in Memphis for the Army and the Army Air Force. The Memphis Army Depot also served as a prisoner-of-war camp, housing 800 Axis prisoners. By the time it closed in 1997, the Memphis Army Depot had 130 buildings on site with more than 4,000,000 square feet (370,000 m2) of enclosed industrial space. Meanwhile, in 1942, the US Navy built the Millington Naval Air Station (now the Naval Support Activity Mid-South) in Mi...
Memphis is well known for its cultural contributions to the identity of the American south. Col. Henry Van Pelt began publishing The Appeal newspaper, ancestor of today's Commercial Appeal, in a wooden shack along the Wolf River in 1841. A pro-Confederacy newspaper, The Appeal moved frequently during the Civil War to avoid capture by Union forces. ...
The first Memphis schools were chartered in 1826, but until 1848 all Memphis schools were private. During this time the Memphis City Schools was formed in the early 1830s.[citation needed]The first "free" public schools opened in 1848, but at first nominally charged a $2 tuition. By 1852, there were 13 public schools supported by taxpayers. The fir...
The Memphis and Shelby County Room in the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library provides facilities for researchers to view items from the library's archives and its manuscript collections. These include historical records of people and families, maps, photographs, newspaper vertical files, books, city directories, and music and video recordings. These...
Memphis, Tennessee, between 1854 and 1857, The New York Public Library, Digital Collection.Former Napoleon Hillmansion (1881-1930).Scimitar Building, commissioned by Napoleon Hill in 1902.Cossitt Library and US Customs House (NBY 6202) c. 1910/1919.Baker, Thomas H. "Refugee Newspaper: The Memphis Daily Appeal, 1862-1865." Journal of Southern History (1963): 326–344. in JSTORBaker, Thomas Harrison. "Yellowjack. The yellow fever epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tennessee." Bulletin of the History of Medicine42.3 (1967): 241–264.Baker, Thomas Harrison. The Memphis Commercial Appeal: The History of a Southern Newspaper(Louisiana State University Press, 1971)Beaupre, Lauren Elizabeth. "Saints and the "Long Civil Rights Movement": Claiming Space in Memphis." Journal of Urban History (2012): onlineHá 6 dias · Memphis, city, seat of Shelby county, extreme southwestern corner of Tennessee, on the Mississippi River. It is the most populous city in the state and is at the center of Tennessee’s second largest metropolitan area. Learn more about Memphis’s history, attractions, and culture, including its contributions to music.
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Memphis is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the seat of Shelby County, in the southwesternmost part of the state, and is situated along the Mississippi River. With a population of 633,104 at the 2020 U.S. census, Memphis is the second-most populous city in Tennessee after Nashville.
Memphis is the second-most populous city in the state of Tennessee. The city has a large port on the Mississippi River. It is also well known for blues music and barbecue. The city is also home to FedEx, a leading company that ships packages around the world.
Geography of Memphis, Tennessee. Location in Shelby County and the state of Tennessee. The City of Memphis is located on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the southwest corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee. It is the regional hub for a tri-state area of Arkansas, Mississippi and Tennessee .
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