One hundred historic sites. Countless inspiring stories.


Built on a bluff, and always on the precipice. That’s Memphis — teetering between
north and south, east and west, rich and poor, black and white. This town of tensions
tells a tale unlike any other. If you like mesmerizing architecture, societal collision,
restless ghosts, meteoric rises and tragic declines, you’ll love Original Memphis.
SEE the magnificent
mansions of wealthy
cotton speculators and
river barons.		 FEEL the personal pain
of slavery, war, and five
devastating yellow fever
epidemics.		 HEAR the remarkable
stories of life, love, work,
and play in the 19th-
century south.

 

Historic Victorian Village

Memphis played a role in the creation of the first "Teddy Bear."

wright carriage house 

"In 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt came to Memphis to visit his good friend Luke Edward Wright...at their grand Italianate mansion at the corner of Jefferson Avenue and Orleans Street. At the time, the neighborhood — Memphis' first suburb — that we know as Victorian Village was previously dubbed "Millionaire's Row." And not without reason: The streets were lined with large, beautiful homes owned by bankers, politicians, cotton merchants, shipping and railroad tycoons, and other people of great wealth." - Tim Sampson for Memphis Magazine

learn more about the Wright Carriage House here

 
 
Woodruff-Fontaine House Museum
Woodruff-Fontaine House Museum c.1870

Mallory-Neely House
Mallory-Neely House c.1852
st mary's
St. Mary's Episcopal Cathedral c.1857

 


 

 

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