*memphis*

ALLIES

(“cooper-young historic district”)

(“memphis” is a city in the southwestern corner of the US state of ‘Tennessee’ and the county seat of ‘shelby county’)

(the city is located on the fourth ‘Chickasaw Bluff’, south of the confluence of the ‘Wolf’ and ‘Mississippi’ rivers)

(‘Memphis’ had a population of 653,450 in 2013, making it the largest city in the state of ‘Tennessee’)

(it is the largest city on the ‘Mississippi River’, the third largest in the greater ‘Southeastern United States’, and the 23rd largest in the United States)

(the greater Memphis metropolitan area, including adjacent counties in ‘Mississippi’ and ‘Arkansas’, had a 2014 population of 1,317,314)

(this makes ‘Memphis’ the second-largest metropolitan area in ‘Tennessee’, surpassed by metropolitan ‘Nashville’)

(‘Memphis’ is the youngest of Tennessee’s major cities, founded in 1819 as a ‘planned city’ by a group of wealthy Americans including judge ‘John Overton’ and future president ‘Andrew Jackson’)

(a resident of ‘Memphis’ is referred to as a ‘Memphian’, and the Memphis region is known, particularly to media outlets, as ‘Memphis and the mid-south’)