Memphis, Tennessee
Memphis, Tennessee City of Memphis From top to bottom and left to right: Downtown Memphis skyline, Beale Street, Graceland, Memphis Pyramid, Beale Street Landing, and the Hernando de Soto Bridge From top to bottom and left to right: Downtown Memphis skyline, Beale Street, Graceland, Memphis Pyramid, Beale Street Landing, and the Hernando de Soto Bridge Flag of Memphis, Tennessee Flag Official seal of Memphis, Tennessee Nickname(s): The Bluff City, The River City, Blues City, The M, MEM, Birthplace of Rock and Roll, The BBQ Capital of the World Memphis, Tennessee is positioned in the US Memphis, Tennessee - Memphis, Tennessee Website City of Memphis Memphis is a town/city in the southwestern corner of the U.S.
Memphis had a populace of 653,450 in 2013, making it the biggest city in the state of Tennessee.
The greater Memphis urbane area, including adjoining counties in Mississippi and Arkansas, had a 2014 populace of 1,317,314. This makes Memphis the second-largest urbane region in Tennessee, surpassed by urbane Nashville.
Memphis is the youngest of Tennessee's primary cities, established in 1819 as a prepared city by a group of wealthy Americans including judge John Overton and future president Andrew Jackson. A resident of Memphis is referred to as a Memphian, and the Memphis region is known, especially to media outlets, as Memphis and the Mid-South.
Main articles: History of Memphis, Tennessee and Timeline of Memphis, Tennessee Occupying a substantial bluff rising from the Mississippi River, the site of Memphis has been a natural locale for human settlement by varying cultures over thousands of years. The region was known to be settled in the first millennium AD.
Holmes, writing in Hudson's Four Centuries of Southern Indians, notes that there was a third strategic point in the late 18th century through which European powers could control American encroachment and their interference with Indian matters after Fort Nogales (present day Vicksburg) and Fort Confederacion (present day Epes, Alabama): "...Chickasaw Bluffs, positioned on the Mississippi River at the present day locale of Memphis.
By this time, the Spanish had departed. The fort's ruins went unnoticed twenty years later when Memphis was laid out as a city, after the United States government paid the Chickasaw for land. The town/city of Memphis was established on May 22, 1819 (incorporated December 19, 1826) by John Overton, James Winchester and Andrew Jackson. They titled it after the ancient capital of Egypt on the Nile River. Memphis advanced as a trade and transit center in the 19th century because of its flood-free locale high above the Mississippi River.
The cotton economy of the antebellum South depended on the forced workforce of large numbers of black slaves, and Memphis also advanced as a primary slave market for the domestic slave trade.
In 1857, the Memphis and Charleston Railroad was completed, connecting the Atlantic Coast of South Carolina and this primary Mississippi River port; it was the only east-west barns constructed athwart the southern states before to the Civil War.
Tennessee seceded from the Union in June 1861, and Memphis briefly became a Confederate stronghold.
Union ironclad gunboats captured the town/city in the naval Battle of Memphis on June 6, 1862, and the town/city and state were occupied by the Union Army for the duration of the war.
The Union Army commanders allowed the town/city to maintain its civil government amid most of this reconstructionbut excluded Confederate veterans from office, which shifted political dynamics in the town/city as the war went on. As Memphis was used as a Union supply base, associated with close-by Fort Pickering, it continued to prosper economically throughout the war.
The black populace of Memphis increased from 3,000 in 1860, when the total populace was 22,623, to nearly 20,000 in 1865, with most settling south of what was then the town/city limits. The white populace was also increasing, but not to the same degree.
The rapid demographic changes, added to the stress of war and occupation, and uncertainty about who was in charge, resulted in burgeoning tensions between the Irish policemen and black Union soldiers following the war. In three days of rioting in early May 1866, the Memphis Riot erupted, in which white mobs made up of policemen, firemen, and other mostly ethnic Irish, attacked and killed 46 blacks, wounding 75 and injuring 100 persons; raped a several women, and finished nearly 100 homes while severely damaging churches and schools in South Memphis.
In Memphis, unlike disturbances in some other cities, ex-Confederate veterans were generally not part of the attacks against blacks.
The outrages of the brawl in Memphis and a similar one in New Orleans in September (the latter did include Confederate veterans) resulted in support in the North for Congress to pass the Reconstruction Act and the Fourteenth Amendment. In the 1870s, a series of yellow fever epidemics devastated Memphis, with the disease being carried by river passengers along the waterways.
During the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1878 in Memphis, Tennessee, more than 5000 citizens were listed in the official register of deaths between July 26 and November 27.
Within four days of the Memphis Board of Health's declaration of a yellow fever outbreak, 20,000 inhabitants had fled the city.
The $15 million in losses caused by the epidemic bankrupted the town/city of Memphis, and as a result their charter was revoked.
By 1870, Memphis's populace of 40,000 was almost double that of Nashville and Atlanta, ranking it second only to New Orleans as the biggest city in the South. The populace of Memphis continued to expanded after 1870, even when the panic of 1873 hit the US, especially the South, very hard.
The panic of 1873 allowed Memphis's underclasses to swell amidst the poverty and hardship the panic wrought, giving further credence to Memphis being a rough, shiftless city.
Also, Memphis had a reputation for being a dirty town/city dominant up to outbreak in 1878.
Two yellow fever epidemics, cholera and malaria had given Memphis a reputation as a sickly town/city and a filthy one.
It was unheard of for a town/city with a populace as large as the one in Memphis to have no waterworks the town/city still relied entirely on the river and precipitation cisterns to collect water, and there was no way to remove sewage. The combination of a swelling population, especially of lower and working classes, and the abysmal community and sanitary conditions of Memphis made the town/city ripe for a serious epidemic.
The same trains and steamboats that brought thousands into Memphis now carried away over 25,000 Memphians, more than half of the population, in a span of five days. On August 23, the Board of Health finally declared a yellow fever epidemic in Memphis, and the town/city collapsed, hemorrhaging its population.
Neither of these two groups had the capacity to flee the town/city like the middle and upper class caucasians of Memphis, and thus they were subjected to a town/city of death.
The committee's chief before ity was separating the poor from the town/city and isolating them into refugee camps. Also, the Howard Association, formed specifically for yellow fever epidemics in New Orleans and Memphis, organized nurses and doctors inside Memphis and throughout the nation in response to the outbreak. They stayed at the Peabody Hotel, the only hotel to keep its doors open amid the epidemic (Crosby 60), and from there were assigned to their respective infected districts.
As a result of this crisis, Memphis temporarily lost its town/city charter and was reclassified by the state council as a Taxing District from 1878 1893. Although Memphis lost its charter and 75% of its population, a new era of sanitation arose in Memphis.
Nearly all of Memphis's upper and middle classes vanished, depriving the town/city of its general leadership and class structure that dictated everyday life similar to other large Southern Cities like New Orleans, Charleston, and Atlanta.
This put Memphis in a unique position, one in which poorer caucasians and blacks fundamentally made up the town/city and played the greatest part in reestablishing the city.
The epidemic had made Memphis a less cosmopolitan place, with an economy that serviced the cotton trade and a populace drawn increasingly from poor white and black Southerners. Businessmen were eager to increase town/city population after the losses of 1878 79, and supported annexation of new areas to the city; this was passed in 1890 before the census.
In terms of its economy, Memphis advanced as the world's biggest spot cotton market and the world's biggest hardwood lumber market, both commodity products of the Mississippi Delta.
Memphis did not turn into a home rule town/city until 1963, although the state council had amended the constitution in 1953 to furnish home rule for metros/cities and counties.
In 1968, the Memphis sanitation strike began for living wages and better working conditions; the workers were overwhelmingly African American.
The governor ordered Tennessee National Guardsmen into the town/city inside hours, where small, roving bands of rioters continued to be active. Fearing the violence, more of the middle-class began to leave the town/city for the suburbs.
In 1970, the Enumeration Bureau reported Memphis' populace as 60.8% white and 38.9% black. Suburbanization was attracting wealthier inhabitants to newer housing outside the city.
Memphis is well known for its cultural contributions to the identity of the American South.
Many famous musicians interval up in and around Memphis and moved to Chicago and other areas from the Mississippi Delta, carrying their music with them to influence other metros/cities and listeners over radio airwaves. These encompassed such musical greats as Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Muddy Waters, Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash, Robert Johnson, W.
Main article: Geography of Memphis, Tennessee Memphis is positioned in the southwest corner of Tennessee at 35 7 3 N 89 58 16 W. According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town/city has a total region of 324.0 square miles (839.2 km2), of which 315.1 square miles (816.0 km2) is territory and 9.0 square miles (23.2 km2), or 2.76%, is water. Downtown Memphis rises from a bluff along the Mississippi River.
The town/city is a nationwide transportation core and Mississippi River crossing for Interstate 40, (east-west), Interstate 55 (north-south), barge traffic, Memphis International Airport (Fed - Ex's "Super - Hub" facility) and various freight barns s that serve the city.
On a more positive note, in 2013 Forbes periodical ranked Memphis as one of the top 15 metros/cities in the United States with an "emerging downtown" area. The American Queen docked at Beale Street Landing along the Memphis riverfront The Memphis Riverfront stretches along the Mississippi River from the Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park in the north, to the T.
The River Walk is a park fitness that joins downtown Memphis from Mississippi River Greenbelt Park in the north, to Tom Lee Park in the south.
Shelby County is positioned over four natural aquifers, one of which is recognized as the "Memphis Sand Aquifer" or simply as the "Memphis Aquifer".
The lowest temperature ever recorded in Memphis was 13 F ( 25 C) on December 24, 1963, and the highest temperature ever was 108 F (42 C) on July 13, 1980. Over the course of a year, there is an average of 4.4 days of highs below freezing, 6.9 evenings of lows below 20 F ( 7 C), 43 evenings of lows below freezing, 64 days of highs above 90 F (32 C)+, and 2.1 days of highs above 100 F (38 C)+.
Climate data for Memphis (Memphis Int'l), 1981 2010 normals, extremes 1872 present For historical populace data, see: History of Memphis, Tennessee.
According to the 2006 2008 American Community Survey, the ethnic composition of the town/city of Memphis was: Enumeration Bureau ranked the Memphis region as the poorest large metro region in the country. Dr.
Jeff Wallace of the University of Memphis noted that the lured was related to decades of segregation in government and schools.
The Memphis Metropolitan Travel Destination (MSA), the 42nd biggest in the United States, has a 2010 populace of 1,316,100 and includes the Tennessee counties of Shelby, Tipton and Fayette; as well as the northern Mississippi counties of De - Soto, Marshall, Tate, and Tunica; and Crittenden County, Arkansas, all part of the Mississippi Delta.
The 2010 census shows that the Memphis metro region is close to a majority-minority population: For a several decades, the Memphis metro region has had the highest percentage of black populace among the nation's large urbane areas.
The global headquarters of the Church of God in Christ, the second-largest Pentecostal denomination in the United States, is positioned in Memphis.
The National Civil Rights Museum, positioned in Memphis at the Lorraine Motel and other buildings, has an annual ceremony at Mason's Temple of Deliverance where it honors persons with Freedom Awards.
Other notable and/or large churches in Memphis include Second Presbyterian Church (EPC), Hope Presbyterian Church (EPC), Evergreen Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), Colonial Park United Methodist Church, Christ United Methodist Church, Idlewild Presbyterian Church (PCUSA), the Pentecostal Church (UPCI), First Baptist Broad, Temple of Deliverance, Calvary Episcopal Church, and Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church.
A number of seminaries are positioned in Memphis and the urbane area.
Memphis is home to Memphis Theological Seminary and Harding School of Theology.
Main article: Economy of Memphis, Tennessee Located on the Mississippi River and intersected by five primary freight barns s and two Interstate Highways, I-40 and I-55, Memphis is ideally positioned for commerce in the transit and shipping industry.
The town/city is home to Memphis International Airport, the world's second busiest cargo airport (following Hong Kong).
Other primary corporations based in Memphis include Allenberg Cotton, American Residential Services (also known as ARS/Rescue Rooter); Baker, Donelson, Bearman, Caldwell & Berkowitz; Cargill Cotton, City Gear, First Horizon National Corporation, Fred's, GTx, Lenny's Sub Shop, Mid-America Apartments, Perkins Restaurant and Bakery, Service - Master, True Temper Sports, Varsity Brands, and Verso Paper.
Corporations with primary operations based in Memphis include Gibson guitars (based in Nashville), and Smith & Nephew.
The entertainment and film industries have identified Memphis in recent years.
Several primary motion pictures, most of which were recruited and assisted by the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission, have been filmed in Memphis, including Making the Grade (1984), Elvis and Me (1988), Great Balls of Fire! The 1992 tv movie Memphis, starring Memphis native Cybill Shepherd, who also served as executive producer and writer, was also filmed in Memphis.
Main article: Culture of Memphis, Tennessee One of the biggest celebrations of the town/city is Memphis in May.
The month-long series of affairs promotes Memphis' tradition and outreach of its citizens far beyond the city's borders.
During June, Memphis is home to the Memphis Italian Festival at Marquette Park.
Carnival Memphis, formerly known as the Memphis Cotton Carnival, is an annual series of parties and festivities in June that salutes various aspects of Memphis and its industries.
Memphis sponsors a several film festivals: the Indie Memphis Film Festival, Outflix, and the Memphis International Film and Music Festival.
The Indie Memphis Film Festival is in its 14th year and was held April 27 28, 2013.
Recognized by Movie - Maker Magazine as one of 25 "Coolest Film Festivals" (2009) and one of 25 "Festivals Worth the Entry Fee" (2011), Indie Memphis offers Memphis year-round autonomous film programming, including the Global Lens global film series, IM Student Shorts student films, and an outside concert film series at the historic Levitt Shell.
The Memphis International Film and Music Festival is held in April; it is in its 11th year and takes place at Malco's Ridgeway Four.
On the weekend before Thanksgiving, the Memphis International Jazz Festival is held in the South Main Historic Arts District in Downtown Memphis.
This festival promotes the meaningful part Memphis has played in shaping Jazz nationally and internationally.
Memphis is the home of framers and pioneers of various American music genres, including Memphis soul, Memphis blues, gospel, modern n' roll, Memphis rap, Buck, crunk, and "sharecropper" nation music (in contrast to the "rhinestone" nation sound of Nashville).
Beale Street is a nationwide historical landmark, and shows the impact Memphis has had on American blues, especially after World War II as electric guitars took precedence.
Several notable singers are from the Memphis area, including Justin Timberlake, Kirk Whalum, Three 6 Mafia, Ruth Welting and Kallen Esperian.
The Metropolitan Opera of New York had its first tour in Memphis in 1906; in the 1990s it decided to tour only larger cities.
In addition to the Brooks Museum and Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis plays host to two burgeoning visual art areas, one city-sanctioned, and the other organically formed.
Memphis also has non-commercial visual arts organizations and spaces, including small-town painter Pinkney Herbert's Marshall Arts loggia, on Marshall Avenue near Sun Studios, another arts neighborhood characterized by affordable rent. Well-known writers from Memphis include Shelby Foote, the noted Civil War historian.
Novelist John Grisham interval up in close-by De - Soto County, Mississippi, and sets many of his books in Memphis.
These include The Reivers by William Faulkner (1962), September, September by Shelby Foote (1977); Peter Taylor's The Old Forest and Other Stories (1985), and his the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis (1986); The Firm (1991) and The Client (1993), both by John Grisham; Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway (1993), Plague of Dreamers by Steve Stern (1997); Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins (1999); The Guardian by Beecher Smith (1999), "We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon" by Corey Mesler (2005), The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and The Architect by James Williamson (2007).
Main article: Tourism in Memphis, Tennessee National Civil Rights Museum at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis (2005) Memphis Brooks Museum of Art in Memphis (2008) Media related to Museums in Memphis, Tennessee at Wikimedia Commons Many exhibitions of interest are positioned in Memphis.
The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, established in 1916, is the earliest and biggest fine art exhibition in the state of Tennessee. The Brooks' permanent compilation includes works from the Italian Renaissance and Baroque eras to British, French Impressionists and 20th century artists.
The Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art, established in 1988, is positioned in downtown Memphis near the historic Peabody Hotel.
The Children's Museum of Memphis exhibits interactive and educational activities for kids to take part in, including a high-rise building maze, an aircraft cockpit (donated by Fed - Ex), a fire engine, an art studio, grocery store, and, most recently, a mechanic's garage sponsored by Auto - Zone, Inc.
The Memphis Walk of Fame is a enhance exhibit positioned in the Beale Street historic district, which is modeled after the Hollywood Walk of Fame, but is designated exclusively for Memphis musicians, singers, writers and composers.
Mud Island River Park and Mississippi River Museum is positioned on Mud Island in downtown Memphis.
Victorian Village is a historic precinct of Memphis featuring a series of fine Victorian-era mansions, some of which are open to the enhance as exhibitions.
The Cotton Museum is a exhibition that opened in March 2006 on the old trading floor of the Memphis Cotton Exchange at 65 Union Avenue in downtown Memphis.
Memphis National Cemetery (2006) Media related to Cemeteries in Memphis, Tennessee at Wikimedia Commons The Memphis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery positioned in northeastern Memphis.
Main article: Sports in Memphis, Tennessee Memphis City FC NPSL Soccer 2015 Mike Rose Complex (2,500) --- The Memphis Grizzlies of the National Basketball Association is the only team from one of the "big four" primary sports leagues in Memphis.
The University of Memphis college basketball team, the Memphis Tigers, has a strong following in the town/city due to a history of competing success.
Memphis is home to Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, the site of University of Memphis football, the Liberty Bowl and the Southern Heritage Classic.
In the 1970s and early 1980s, the former WFL charter Memphis Southmen / Memphis Grizzlies sued the NFL in an attempt to be accepted as an expansion franchise.
Media related to Parks in Memphis, Tennessee at Wikimedia Commons Major Memphis parks include W.C.
Handy Park, Tom Lee Park, Audubon Park, Overton Park including the Old Forest Arboretum, the Lichterman Nature Center (a nature learning center), the Memphis Botanic Garden, and Jesse H Turner Park.
Main article: Geography of Memphis, Tennessee See also: List of neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee The Memphis Zoo, which is positioned in midtown Memphis, features many exhibits of mammals, birds, fish, and amphibians from all over the world.
The theatre is also home to two of Memphis' small-town arts groups, Ballet Memphis and Opera Memphis.
Possibly the most prominent venue in Memphis, past acts have encompassed Ani Di - Franco, AFI, Cannibal Corpse, GWAR, Insane Clown Posse, Keller Williams, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, the Doors and Black Sabbath among many others.
As one of the two primary concert venues in Memphis, past acts have encompassed the likes of R.E.M., Phish, 311, the Black Crowes, Fall Out Boy, Journey, New Kids on the Block, O.A.R., Pat Benatar, Smashing Pumpkins, Steely Dan, and Willie Nelson.
In addition to the retail store itself, the building contains an observation deck, restaurants, bowling alley, aquarium, and hotel. It is one of the first sights seen when entering the town/city from West Memphis via the Hernando De - Soto Bridge.
Other Memphis attractions include the Liberty Bowl Memorial Stadium, Fed - Ex - Forum, and Mississippi riverboat day cruises.
Main article: Government of Memphis, Tennessee Beginning in 1963, Memphis adopted a mayor-council form of government, with 13 City Council members, six propel at-large from throughout the town/city and seven propel from geographic districts.
He is a former Memphis town/city councilman.
The previous mayor of the town/city of Memphis was A C Wharton.
Since the late 20th century, county-wide discussions have recurred on the concept of consolidating unincorporated Shelby County and Memphis into a urbane government, as Nashville-Davidson County did in 1963.
Consolidation was a popular vote item on the 2010 ballots in both the town/city of Memphis and Shelby County, under the state law for dual-voting on such measures.
As noted below, in 2011 the Memphis town/city council voted to dissolve its town/city school board and consolidate with the Shelby County School System, without the collaboration or agreement of Shelby County. The town/city had authority for this action under Tennessee state laws that differentiate between town/city and county powers.
Main article: Crime in Memphis, Tennessee A Memphis Police Department police car in Memphis, 2014 In 2001, it ranked as the second-most dangerous city, and in 2002 as most dangerous by the Morgan Quitno rankings. In 2004, violent crime in Memphis reached a decade record low.
However, that trend changed and in 2005, Memphis was ranked the fourth-most dangerous town/city with a populace of 500,000 or higher in the U.S. Crime increased again in the first half of 2006.
By 2014, Memphis crime had substantially decreased, bringing the city's ranking up to eleventh in violent crime. Nationally, metros/cities follow similar trends, and crime numbers tend to be cyclical.
In 2006 and 2007, the Memphis urbane region ranked second-most dangerous in the country among metros/cities with a populace over 500,000.
In 2006, the Memphis urbane region ranked number one in violent crimes for primary cities around the U.S., as stated to the FBI's annual crime rankings, whereas it had ranked second in 2005. The Memphis Police Department's use of the FBI National Incident Based Reporting System, which is a more specified health of reporting crimes than what is used in many other primary cities, has been cited as a reason for Memphis' incessant appearance on lists of most dangerous U.S.
Cities. With regard to homicide statistics released by the town/city in more recent years, they show another dramatic rise in murders committed in Memphis.
There were 140 homicides in the town/city in 2014 and 161 the following year. Then, in 2016, police officials recorded 228 murders, a total that marked a 63% increase in homicides since 2014. According to Michael Rallings, the director of the Memphis Police Department, investigations determined that one third of the murder victims in 2016 had been involved in gang activity. Main article: Education in Memphis, Tennessee On March 8, 2011, inhabitants voted to dissolve the charter for Memphis City Schools, effectively merging it with the Shelby County School District. After issues with state law and court challenges, the consolidation took effect the start of the 2013 14 school year.
The Memphis region is also home to many private, college-prep schools: Briarcrest Christian School (co-ed), Christian Brothers High School (boys), Evangelical Christian School (co-ed), First Assembly Christian School (co-ed), Hutchison School (girls), Lausanne Collegiate School (co-ed), Memphis University School (boys), Saint Benedict at Auburndale (co-ed), St.
Also encompassed in this list is Memphis Harding Academy, a co-ed school affiliated with the Churches of Christ.
Colleges and universities positioned in the town/city include the University of Memphis, including University of Memphis Cecil C.
Humphreys School of Law, Rhodes College, Christian Brothers University, Memphis College of Art, Le - Moyne Owen College, Baptist College of Health Sciences, Memphis Theological Seminary, Harding School of Theology, Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide (Memphis Campus), Reformed Theological Seminary (satellite campus), William R.
Moore College of Technology, Southern College of Optometry, Southwest Tennessee Community College, Tennessee Technology Center at Memphis, Visible Music College, Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.
Memphis also has campuses of a several for-profit post-secondary establishments, including Concorde Career College, ITT Technical Institute, Remington College, Vatterott College, and University of Phoenix.
Major broadcast tv affiliate stations in the Memphis region include, but are not limited to: Terrestrial broadcast airways broadcasts in the Memphis region include, but are not limited to: Memphis is the subject of various pop and nation songs, including "The Memphis Blues" by W.
Handy, "Memphis, Tennessee" by Chuck Berry, "Night Train to Memphis" by Roy Acuff, "Goin' to Memphis" by Paul Revere and the Raiders, "Queen of Memphis" by Confederate Railroad, "Memphis Soul Stew" by King Curtis, "Maybe It Was Memphis" by Pam Tillis, "Graceland" by Paul Simon, "Memphis Train" by Rufus Thomas, "All the Way from Memphis" by Mott the Hoople, "Wrong Side of Memphis" by Trisha Yearwood, "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" by Bob Dylan, "Memphis Skyline" by Rufus Wainwright, "Sequestered in Memphis" by The Hold Steady and "Walking in Memphis" by Marc Cohn.
In addition, Memphis is mentioned in scores of other songs, including "Proud Mary" by Creedence Clearwater Revival, "Honky Tonk Women" by the Rolling Stones, "Dixie Chicken" by Little Feat, "Who's Gonna Fill Their Shoes" by George Jones, "Daisy Jane" by America, "Life Is a Highway" by Tom Cochrane, "Black Velvet" by Alannah Myles, "Cities" by Talking Heads, "Crazed Country Rebel" by Hank Williams III, "Pride (In the Name of Love)" by U2, "M.E.M.P.H.I.S." Many films are set in the American town/city including, Black Snake Moan, The Blind Side, Cast Away, Choices: The Movie, The Client, The Firm, Forty Shades of Blue, Great Balls of Fire!, Hustle & Flow, Kill Switch, Making the Grade, Memphis Belle, Mississippi Grind, Mystery Train, N-Secure, The Rainmaker, The Silence of the Lambs, Soul Men, and Walk the Line.
Many of those and other films have also been filmed in Memphis including, Black Snake Moan, Walk the Line, Hustle & Flow, Forty Shades of Blue, 21 Grams, A Painted House, American Saint, The Poor and Hungry, Cast Away, Woman's Story, The Big Muddy, The Rainmaker, Finding Graceland, The People vs.
The tv series Greenleaf, Memphis Beat, and Quarry are set in the city.
These include The Reivers by William Faulkner (1962), September, September by Shelby Foote (1977); Peter Taylor's The Old Forest and Other Stories (1985), and his the Pulitzer Prize-winning A Summons to Memphis (1986); The Firm (1991) and The Client (1993), both by John Grisham; Memphis Afternoons: a Memoir by James Conaway (1993), Plague of Dreamers by Steve Stern (1997); Cassina Gambrel Was Missing by William Watkins (1999); The Guardian by Beecher Smith (1999), "We are Billion-Year-Old Carbon" by Corey Mesler (2005), The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris, and The Architect by James Williamson (2007).
Main article: Transportation in Memphis, Tennessee Interstate 40, Interstate 55, Interstate 22, Interstate 240, Interstate 269, are the chief expressways in the Memphis area.
Interstates 40 and 55 cross the Mississippi River at Memphis from the state of Arkansas.
Interstate 69 is a future interstate that, upon culmination, will connect Memphis to Canada and Mexico.
Interstate 40 is a coast-to-coast freeway that joins Memphis to Nashville, Tennessee and on to North Carolina to the east, and Little Rock, Arkansas, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, and the Greater Los Angeles Area to the west.
Interstate 55 joins Memphis to Saint Louis, Missouri and Chicago to the north, and Jackson, Mississippi and New Orleans, Louisiana to the south.
Interstate 240 is the inner beltway which serves areas including Downtown, Midtown, South Memphis, Memphis International Airport, East Memphis, and North Memphis.
Interstate 22 joins Memphis with Birmingham, Alabama, via northern Mississippi (including Tupelo) and northwestern Alabama.
While technically not entering the town/city of Memphis proper, I-22 ends at I-269 in Byhalia, Mississippi, connecting it to the rest of the Memphis interstate system.
Interstate 69 will follow Interstate 55 and Interstate 240 through the town/city of Memphis.
A new spur, Interstate 555, also serves the Memphis metro region connecting it to Jonesboro, Arkansas.
Other meaningful federal highways though Memphis include the east-west U.S.
A large volume of barns freight moves through Memphis, because of its two heavy-duty Mississippi River barns crossings, which carry a several major east-west barns freight lines, and also because of the primary north-south barns lines through Memphis which connect with such primary cities as Chicago, St.
The Memphis Central Station was eventually renovated, and it still serves the city.
The only inter-city passenger barns service to Memphis is the daily City of New Orleans train, directed by Amtrak, which has one train northbound and one train southbound each day between Chicago and New Orleans.
Memphis International rates as the 41st busiest passenger airport in the US and served as a core for Northwest Airlines (later Delta Air Lines) until September 3, 2013. and had 4,390,000 boarding passengers (enplanements) in 2011, an 11.9% decline over the previous year. Delta has reduced its flights at Memphis by approximately 65% since its 2008 consolidation with Northwest Airlines and operates an average of 30 daily flights as of December 2013, with only one cyclic global destination (Cancun).
There are also general aviation airports in the Memphis Metropolitan Area, including the Millington Regional Jetport, positioned at the former Naval Air Station in Millington, Tennessee.
Memphis has the second-busiest cargo port on the Mississippi River, which is also the fourth-busiest inland port in the United States. The International Port of Memphis covers both the Tennessee and Arkansas sides of the Mississippi River from river mile 725 (km 1167) to mile 740 (km 1191). A focal point of the river port is the industrialized park on President's Island, just south of Downtown Memphis.
Four barns and highway bridges cross the Mississippi River at Memphis.
Memphis's major utility provider is the Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division (MLGW).
Prior to that, Memphis was served by two major electric companies, which were consolidated into the Memphis Power Company. The City of Memphis bought the private business in 1939 to form MLGW, which was an early customer of electricity from the Tennessee Valley Authority.
The Memphis and Shelby County region supports various hospitals, including the Methodist and Baptist Memorial community systems, two of the biggest private hospitals in the country.
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Bill Dries, "Consolidation Voting Case Still Complex in 3rd Year", Memphis Daily News, January 6, 2014, accessed February 21, 2015 "MAKING A REGIONAL DISTRICT: MEMPHIS CITY SCHOOLS DISSOLVES INTO ITS SUBURBS", Columbia Law Review, March 2012 "Crime rates in Memphis by year." Chapman, Bridget (January 11, 2017) "Memphis Police: A third of homicides in 2016 had victims involved in gangs." "Career College in Memphis Dividend, TN - Vatterott".
Memphis Central Station Pictures Archived September 26, 2015, at the Wayback Machine.
Delta to Leave Memphis Hub Analyst Blog.
Delta Air Lines plans additional cuts to service at Memphis International.
"Port of Memphis website About Page".
Re Memphis Power & Light Co.
"Memphis, Tennessee".
Memphis: In the Great Depression (U of Tennessee Press, 1986).
Crusades for Freedom: Memphis and the Political Transformation of the American South.
Memphis and the Paradox of Place: Globalization in the American South.
"Memphis: Cotton Fields, Cargo Planes, & Biotechnology", in - Southern Spaces (online, August 28), see , accessed December 2, 2015.
African American Life and Culture in Orange Mound: Case Study of a Black Community in Memphis, Tennessee, 1890 1980.
List of mayors of Memphis, Tennessee List of citizens from Memphis, Tennessee Memphis, Tennessee National Weather Service Memphis, TN Bird's eye view of the town/city of Memphis, Tennessee 1870, Library of Congress Perspective map of the town/city of Memphis, Tenn.
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