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The National Civil Rights Museum in Memphis is at the Lorraine Motel where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was slain in 1968. The museum preserves the motel and tells the history of the American Civil Rights Movement.
Elvis Presley's home called Graceland is located in Memphis. Graceland is the second most visited house in the country.
Cotton made Memphis a major port on the Mississippi River. The Memphis Cotton Exchange still handles approximately one-third of the entire American cotton crop each year.
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- 1819 - Memphis, Tennessee founded
Near the site of the earlier French Fort Prudhomme.
www.wikipedia.org - 1854 - Memphis
Memphis, a flourishing city and port of entry of Shelby county, Tennessee, is beautifully situated on the Mississippi river, just below the mouth of...Read MORE... - 1864 - August 21 - Gen-major Nathan B Forrests assault on Memphis, Tennessee
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1866 - Fire
Memphis, Dec. 19. - A fire broke out in the basement of Joseph Speet's confectionery, Madison street, at three o'clock this morning, resulting in an...Read MORE...- 1869 - Runaway
A runaway horse attached to a milk cart, in Memphis, the other day, ran over four children, killing two of them.
St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 19, 1869 - 1878 - 5,200 Memphis residents died due to yellow fever epidemic
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ tntimeln.htm - 1880 - January 21 - 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis, Tennessee
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January 21, 1880 
Rose Imitation Vanilla Flavoring
Made in Memphis, TN
Found at Old Drugstore, St Augustine, Florida
Advertisement- 1886 - September 14 - George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
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September 14, 1886 - 1892 - MEMPHIS' CONFLAGRATION. Several Buildings Destroyed, Entailing Losses of Over a Million.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 9. - A most disastrous conflagration broke out in the building No. 230 Main street, occupied by the Druz-Berne Hat company, at 9:30....Read MORE... - 1892 - March 17 - A winter storm in southwestern and central Tennessee produced 26 inches of snow at Riddleton, and 18.5 inches at Memphis. It was the deepest snow of record for those areas.
WeatherForYou.com - 1895 - Memphis
Memphis, a city and port of entry of Shelby co., Tennessee, is beautifully situated on the Mississippi River, just below the mouth of Wolf River, and ...Read MORE... - 1906
Memphis, a city and capital of Shelby co., Tenn., is beautifully situated on the Mississippi River, just below the mouth of the Wolf River and on the ...Read MORE... - 1907 - $65,000 LOSS AT MEMPHIS. Freight House and Twenty-Five Car Loads of Merchandise Burned.
Memphis, Tenn., March 21. - A freight house of the Illinois Central Railroad, situated at the corner of Shelby and Calhoun streets in the southern...Read MORE... 
Water Front, Memphis, Tenn.
Postcard- 1923 - January 19 - WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
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United States Custom House, Court House and Post Office, Memphis, Tenn.
Postcard
Baptist Hospital
Postcard- 1977 - Elvis Presley dies, August 16, 1977, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
August 16, 1977
Old Photos, Pictures, Advertisements and Postcards from Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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Rose Imitation Vanilla Flavoring
Made in Memphis, TN
Found at Old Drugstore, St Augustine, Florida
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Postcard
Water Front, Memphis, Tenn.
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Postcard
United States Custom House, Court House and Post Office, Memphis, Tenn.
Memphis, Tennessee, USA
Postcard
Baptist Hospital
History, News and Stories of Memphis, Tennessee, USA
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1819 - Memphis, Tennessee founded
Near the site of the earlier French Fort Prudhomme.
www.wikipedia.org
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1854 - Memphis
Memphis, a flourishing city and port of entry of Shelby county, Tennessee, is beautifully situated on the Mississippi river, just below the mouth of... Read MORE...
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1864 - August 21 - Gen-major Nathan B Forrests assault on Memphis, Tennessee
historyorb.com
1866 - Fire
Memphis, Dec. 19. - A fire broke out in the basement of Joseph Speet's confectionery, Madison street, at three o'clock this morning, resulting in an... Read MORE...
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1869 - Runaway
A runaway horse attached to a milk cart, in Memphis, the other day, ran over four children, killing two of them. St Joseph Herald
Saint Joseph, Michigan
June 19, 1869
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1878 - 5,200 Memphis residents died due to yellow fever epidemic
www.worldatlas.com/ webimage/ countrys/ namerica/ usstates/ tntimeln.htm
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1880 - January 21 - 1st US sewage disposal system separate from storm drains, Memphis, Tennessee
historyorb.com
January 21, 1880
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1886 - September 14 - George K Anderson of Memphis, Tennessee patents typewriter ribbon
historyorb.com
September 14, 1886
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1892 - MEMPHIS' CONFLAGRATION. Several Buildings Destroyed, Entailing Losses of Over a Million.
MEMPHIS, Feb. 9. - A most disastrous conflagration broke out in the building No. 230 Main street, occupied by the Druz-Berne Hat company, at 9:30.... Read MORE...
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1892 - March 17 - A winter storm in southwestern and central Tennessee produced 26 inches of snow at Riddleton, and 18.5 inches at Memphis. It was the deepest snow of record for those areas.
WeatherForYou.com
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1895 - Memphis
Memphis, a city and port of entry of Shelby co., Tennessee, is beautifully situated on the Mississippi River, just below the mouth of Wolf River, and ... Read MORE...
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1906
Memphis, a city and capital of Shelby co., Tenn., is beautifully situated on the Mississippi River, just below the mouth of the Wolf River and on the ... Read MORE...
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1907 - $65,000 LOSS AT MEMPHIS. Freight House and Twenty-Five Car Loads of Merchandise Burned.
Memphis, Tenn., March 21. - A freight house of the Illinois Central Railroad, situated at the corner of Shelby and Calhoun streets in the southern... Read MORE...
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1923 - January 19 - WMC-AM in Memphis TN begins radio transmissions
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1968 - Marin Luther King, Jr. Killed
At 6:05 P.M. on Thursday, 4 April 1968, Martin Luther King was shot dead while standing on a balcony outside his second-floor room at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tennessee. News of King’s assassination prompted major outbreaks of racial violence, resulting in more than 40 deaths nationwide and... Read MORE...
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1977 - Elvis Presley dies, August 16, 1977, in Memphis, Tennessee, USA
August 16, 1977
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