There are 2 article(s) tagged Historical markers:

• 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