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Memphis Facts
- Memphis is 35° N latitude/90° W longitude
- 2nd largest city in Tennessee &
- 25th largest city in the nation
- Largest city on the Mississippi river
- Average Rainfall 64 - 96 inches year
- Population of Memphis is over 600,000
- Elevation is 0 - 1,000 above sea level
- Known as the Bluff city
- (We sit on the Fourth Chickasaw Bluff)
- Memphis Zoo only 1/4 in US with Pandas
- Home to Fed Ex & International paper
- Big River Crossing is the LONGEST
- active rail/bike/pedestrian bridge
- in the country!
- Shelby County, in which Memphis sits, is the biggest of the four counties that the four major cities in Tennessee occupy.. it comes in at a whopping 785 square miles!
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Founding of Memphis
Memphis was founded on May 22, 1819 by a group of investors, John Overton, James Winchester, and Andrew Jackson, and was incorporated as a city in 1826. The city was named after the ancient capital of (Memphis) Egypt on the Nile River. The founders planned for a large city to be built on the site and laid out a plan featuring a regular grid of streets interrupted by four town squares, to be named Exchange, Market, Court, and Auction -- Memphis Trivia --Trivia About Memphis
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