Back to your roots: Elmwood Cemetery’s tree tours return
As the temperature drops and the leaves begin to change, nature-lovers gather at historic Elmwood Cemetery for the return of its annual Fall Tree Tour.
Topic: E.H. Crump
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November 2022
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July 2022
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Historic cemetery brings burial data to life
Elmwood has begun the process of digitizing the 170-year-old cemetery’s records. Burial locations, obituary information and photos will be among the information the public will be able to access on their computers or smartphones.
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September 2020
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MLGW-TVA: Crump’s political power brought electrical power to Memphis
The political boss believed in public ownership of utilities from the dawn of his considerable influence over the city when he was a city commissioner. And Crump saw private owners of such utilities as political adversaries.
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August 2020
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This year ‘ghosts’ of Elmwood can visit you at home
Some of the Memphis figures buried at Elmwood Cemetery star in a film by Willy Bearden that will be streamed Oct. 10. Bearden's documentary includes a key role for himself as a former mayor of Memphis.
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April 2020
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At Elmwood Cemetery you’ll find 70,000 stories, 6 feet apart
The oldest active cemetery and most storied ground in Shelby County provides perspective, now and always.
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September 2019
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Owners trot out plans for old mounted police station
The long-vacant, long-ignored Barksdale Mounted Police Station still has jail cell bars, horse stable windows and the name of Tennessee’s most infamous politician etched into the ornate front wall. A renovation will soon breathe new life into the city's first “suburban” police station.
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August 2019
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Nelson: Led by Memphians, Tennessee ratified woman suffrage. Here’s why that matters
Modern-day progressives like to think that progressives from earlier eras were, like them, enlightened about everything. It ain’t so now and it wasn’t so then.
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