There are 4 article(s) tagged Historical markers:

• March 2022

  • Collierville leaders could take action on Confederate marker

    Collierville leaders could soon take action impacting the future of a Confederate relic in Town Square Park. Town staff is preparing a proposal for the board to consider later this year. 

    By Abigail Warren March 29, 2022

• July 2020

  • Forrest slave market historic marker damaged, to be repaired

    It is the second historical marker to be snapped in two from its base in the past month. The rector of Calvary Episcopal Church says the marker, noting the location of Nathan Bedford Forrest's slave market, will be repaired and reinstalled as soon as possible.

    By Bill Dries July 19, 2020

• March 2019

  • Elvis, Cash & doomed ‘Auto Row’ buildings: History may be honored

    Elvis bought Cadillacs at one building. Johnny Cash recruited his back-up band at the other. Both seem destined for demolition, but plans are being made to memorialize their ties to Memphis music history.

    By Tom Bailey March 22, 2019

• October 2018

  • Montgomery to Memphis

    If you want to really know your country, Memphis is a good place to start. Artists such as Howlin’ Wolf and Elvis Presley brought American culture together and sent it around the world from a studio only steps from where a slave trader was celebrated in a city park. Martin Luther King Jr. marched for economic justice, climbed to the mountaintop, and was taken by an assassin’s bullet, all within a triangle separated by a couple of miles.

    By Chris Herrington October 11, 2018