Whitehaven (Memphis, Tennessee)
Whitehaven has been a neighborhood within the South Memphis borough in southern Memphis , Tennessee in the United States since 1969 . Whitehaven covers 43,642 square miles and had 89,682 residents at the last census. Whitehaven is internationally known as the long-standing home of Elvis Presley , whose Graceland villa is located at number 3764 on the local Elvis Presley Boulevard.
location
Whitehaven is bordered to the north mainly by Nonconnah Creek , to the east by Airways Boulevard (on the other side of which is Memphis Airport ), to the south by the state of Mississippi and to the west by Third Street .
history
The first settlement of what is now Whitehaven took place in 1819, when Benjamin Hildebrand built a log house at the point where Millbranch Road and Wilson Road now meet .
After the completion of the railway line, which connected Tennessee with the south-bordering state of Mississippi, in 1856, the settlement created here was named after the president of the railway company, Francis M. White. The local station on the way from Memphis in the north to Mississippi was initially called White's Station and was later renamed White's Haven , from which the current name emerged.
After the Second World War , the population in both Whitehaven and Memphis grew explosively. Many of the newcomers earned their living in Memphis and at the same time appreciated the quiet residential area of Whitehaven, which was considered a consistently upscale area in the first decades after the Second World War.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b c d e Erica Horton: More than Graceland: Whitehaven's 200-year history (English; article from January 11, 2018)
- ↑ Whitehaven at city-data.com (accessed October 10, 2018)
Coordinates: 35 ° 2 ′ N , 90 ° 2 ′ W