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| Memphis Apartment Locator Services : Memphis Apartments |  | Contents | |
| History |
| Memphis was settled by the Chickasaw tribe. The
Spanish explorer, Hernando de Soto, is believed to have visited
what is now the Memphis area. The French built Fort Prudhomme
in the vicinity. The city was founded in 1819 and incorporated
as a city in 1826. At the conclusion of the Battle of Memphis
on June 6, 1862 during the American Civil War, Union forces
captured Memphis from Confederate control. A yellow fever epidemic
in 1870 greatly reduced the population for many years thereafter.
In 1897, Memphis' pyramid-shaped pavilion was a conspicuous
part of the Tennessee Centennial exposition. From the 1910s
to the 1950s, Memphis was a hotbed of machine politics under
the direction of E. H. "Boss" Crump. |
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