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system is significant because it carried business owners downtown to work from Raleigh Springs, where they would install their families for the summer, commuting by rail to their downtown businesses. In 1929, The Heights were annexed into the city, with an area of 4.13 square miles and its population grew to 12,000.
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The first school of Highland Heights was formed in a hotel near this same intersection on the property which currently holds Highland Heights Baptist Church and school. National is a street divided by a grassy median, once the location of the streetcar tracks. This particular line in the tram
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The term "the Heights," in this context, refers to Highland Heights, Grahamwood Heights, and Mitchell Heights of Memphis, Tennessee. There are other neighborhoods in Memphis which incorporate the word 'heights' in their name. These three are contiguous. Their newsletter is also titled 'The
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Heights.' Highland Heights includes the area bounded by Summer Avenue (also known as U.S. Highways 70 & 79, and formerly known as the Nashville Highway) on the south, Pope Street on the west, Macon Road on the north, and Homer Street on the east. Residents of the
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When the Highland Heights Elementary and High School were built, the 3 acres were donated by A.B. Treadwell and family in 1915. In 1939, the schools were renamed in his honor. The first class graduated
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advocates claim all of this, and more, west to Tillman Street, as part of Mitchell Heights. Neighborhood-naming in Memphis is not an exact science.
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which grew up around the intersection of National Street and Summer Avenue. At its beginning, it was in the county as a
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family cotton plantation was subdivided after the death in 1865 of the pater familias. John was the son of
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have been known to claim an eastern portion of this, up to Highland Street, as part of Nutbush.
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10Aug1980 Commercial Appeal column 'Midsouth Memoirs' by Paul R. Coppock.
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Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, U. of TN Press, Knoxville
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The intersection at National Street and Summer Avenue is where the
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Joe Walk, 'The Corners: the history of Highland Heights'
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bought several parcels to form the first "work farm" (
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To respond to the expansion of Memphis to the east,
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