Chucalissa’s link to slavery and Reconstruction resurfaces
Anthony Lauricella is director of Chucalissa. “We are located in T.O. Fuller State Park, which has its own fascinating history that is important to the city of Memphis and to African-American history in the city of Memphis and in Tennessee,” he said. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
After the Native American inhabitants of Chucalissa left the mound settlement in the 1500s ahead of European explorers arriving in the area, the area became a large cotton plantation.
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Bill Dries covers city and county government and politics. He is a native Memphian and has been a reporter for almost 50 years covering a wide variety of stories from the 1977 death of Elvis Presley and the 1978 police and fire strikes to numerous political campaigns, every county mayor and every Memphis Mayor starting with Wyeth Chandler.
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