Cordova is a improve in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States.
Cordova lies east of Memphis, north of Germantown, south of Bartlett, and northwest of Collierville at an altitude of 361 feet (110 meters).
The majority of Cordova has been took in by the City of Memphis.
The remainder of Cordova is in unincorporated Shelby County, in the Memphis Annexation Reserve area.
The boundaries of the Cordova improve are inexact, but are generally regarded as the Wolf River on the south, Whitten Road on the west, Interstate 40 on the north, and Pisgah Road on the east.
Parts of Shelby Farms are considered part of Cordova.
The Old Cordova Area is centered on Macon and Sanga Roads, 3 miles east of Germantown Road.
The Wolfchase Area is not actually a part of Cordova, but is often referred to as part of the Cordova region by association.
Cordova was a farming village east of Memphis with severaler than a dozen farms when it was established in 1835.
Cordova was famous for the freshly cut flowers that were shipped to Memphis, Tennessee thus the town's motto was "Farms, Flowers and Fellowship". The town most likely changed its name to "Cordova" so not to be confused with another town titled Dexter that was positioned on the same NC&St.L barns line that ran through town.
Cordova was one of the many small barns stops along the Nashville, Chattanooga and St.
A train titled the Memphian from Nashville to Memphis stopped at the former Cordova Railroad station.
Cordova has a barns line running alongside to the chief street (now Macon Road) that was served by P&M (Paducah & Memphis) division of the N.
Because this rail line was considered redundant, the mileage between Cordova and Jackson, Tennessee was abandoned and later scrapped in 1968.
After a seven-year court challenge to the right of Memphis to annex, portions of Cordova were took in into the Memphis City Council Second District.
After a several court and legislative challenges, Memphis instead of its annexation of the Cordova region with the subdivision of Rockcreek, along U.S.
Cordova interval from a quiet nation farm hamlet with a populace of 150 citizens in 1912 to one of the quickest burgeoning neighborhoods of Memphis.
Cordova continues to preserve its past with a historic downtown which each year jubilates with an annual crafts fair and having its own Fourth of July parade. The improve is home of the Hope Presbyterian Church, a megachurch with average weekly attendance of over 7,500. In 2005 the church scaled down plans for a $50 million auditorium with a bell fortress that would reach to 180 feet after protests from small-town homeowners, but opened a lesser facility with 5,000 seats in December 2007. Cordova is home to a branch of the Memphis Public Library system.
The Cordova Branch Library started in one room at the old train depot on Macon Road before moving to the 1913 improve center on Sanga Road.
Businessman Pate Carter, born in Cordova in 1902, established the Memphis small-town grocery chain called Easy-Way Store.
Actress and singer, Lucy Kate Hale was born in Memphis but interval up in Cordova.
Cordova School, now the Community Center Cordova Community Center (also known as "Cordova School" or "Cordova Elementary School") is a former school, Shelby county library with meeting rooms, and church.
The building is primarily used to host improve affairs and classes and presently homes the Cordova Museum in a replicate of an old school room.
Louis barns in downtown Cordova on Macon Road.
Later it served as the Cordova Branch Library of the Memphis-Shelby County Library for more than 50 years until the library was moved to its current undivided facilities.
Cordova is zoned to Shelby County Schools.
Until the 2013 consolidation of Memphis City Schools and Shelby County schools, Cordova was divided between the two districts. Cordova Schools: Cordova Elementary School Cordova Middle School Cordova High School Portions are zoned to Germantown Middle School and Germantown High School, which are not going to the municipal school fitness of Germantown. Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary (MABTS), in Cordova, is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools for associates, bachelors, masters and doctors degrees in Divinity, Christian Education, Missiology, Christian Studies, Pastoral Ministries and Philosophy.
Colonial Country Club in Cordova is a private golf club which formerly hosted the Memphis Open golf tournament (now known as the Stanford St.
South-East Memphis / Cordova Community Centers at City of Memphis City of Memphis and Memphis urbane region (counties in TN, MS and AR)
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