Shelby Co. TN
Topography | Rivers/Streams | Description of Chickasaw Bluffs | Earliest Explorers | Early Settlers | Nashoba | County Political History | 1880 Statistics
First Courthouse at Memphis | County Seat moves to Raleigh | Poorhouse/Asylum | Early Roads | Early Railroads | Telegraphs | Turnpikes | Convict Labor and the Workhouse | County Officers | Early Courts and Cases | Chancery Court | Nashoba Land disputes | Bolton-Dickens disputes | Bolton College | Memphis becomes a "Taxing District" | Recent Criminal Court cases
US-Mexican War 1846-48 | Shelby County in the Civil War | Battle of Memphis | Civil War burials at Elmwood Cemetery and National Cemetery
Public Education | City Schools Organized | Colored Schools | The Higbee School | The Clara Conway Institute | The LeMoyne Institute | Christian Brothers College | St. Agnes Female Seminary
First Presbyterian Church | Second Presbyterian Church | Third Presbyterian Church | Alabama Street Presbyterian Church | Lauderdale Street Presbyterian Church | Cumberland Presbyterian Church | First Methodist Episcopal Church | Asbury Church | Central Methodist Episcopal Church South | Other Methodist Churches | First Baptist Church | Central Baptist Church | St. Peter's Church | St. Mary's Church | St. Brigid's Church | St. Joseph's Church | First Congregational Church | Linden Street Christian Church | St. Mary's Cathedral (Episcopal) | Emanuel Church | Calvary Episcopal Church | Congregation of the Children of Israel | German Lutheran Church of Memphis
Organization of Early Memphis | John Rice | Isaac Rawlings | John C. McLemore | Major Marcus B. Winchester | Patrick Meagher | Incorporation of Memphis | Navy Yard | South Memphis | Pinch District | "Flatboat War"
Yellow Fever Epidemics | Sanitation | Town of South Memphis | Memphis | Ward Boundaries (1849) | Memphis under Martial Law | Memphis becomes a Taxing District
Farmers and Merchants Bank | The Branch Planters Bank | First National Bank | German National Bank | Union and Planters Bank | The State National Bank | The Mercantile Bank | Manhattan Savings Bank and Trust Company | The Mechanics Bank | The Security Bank of Memphis | The Bank of Commerce | The Hernando Insurance Company | The Planters Fire & Marine Insurance Company | The People's Insurance Company | Home Insurance Company | The Memphis City Fire & General Insurance Company | The Bluff City Insurance Company | The Factors Mutual Insurance Company | The Vanderbilt Mutual Insurance Company | The Factors Fire Insurance Company | The Arlington Insurance Company | The Citizens Insurance Company | The Phoenix Fire & Marine Insurance Company | Memphis Board of Fire Underwriters | The Signal Service Observatory | Postmasters | Memphis Merchants Exchange | The Memphis Cotton Exchange | The Memphis Water Company | Brush Electric Light and Power Company | Thompson-Houston Electric Light Company | Elmwood Cemetery | Leath Orphan Asylum | The Young Men's Christian Association | The Old Folks' Society | Memphis Manufacturers
Memphis Advocate | Daily Express | Western World | The Appeal | The Morning Bulletin | The Commercial | The Memphis Daily Avalanche | The Public Ledger | The Southern Post-Journal | The Union Triangle | The Memphis Sunday Times | The Memphis Daily Scimitar | The Southern Record | The Watchman | The Living Way | Adam | The Mississippi Valley Medical Journal | The Tennessee Baptist | Secret societies of Memphis | Town of Raleigh | Tapp's Hole | Arlington | Collierville | Bartlett | Bond Station | Cedar Grove | Germantown | Lucy
Paulette Carpenter, Project Coordinator
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