In this week’s About Town, we look at two projects that dive into the lives of the enslaved people who once lived near Chucalissa and Orange Mound. Plus, there’s a new eclectic eatery in the Edge District, and a South Memphis polluter is gone.

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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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