MID-SOUTH MEMORIES
25 Years Ago — 1995
Free the Children officials say Northside Terrace stands as a concrete example of the way the experimental, anti-poverty agency is working to improve the lives of poor families in North Memphis. Tawana Smith, who lives in Northside Terrace, gives the credit elsewhere. When Smith went looking for a house, she didn’t call Free the Children. She called Harold and Jo Buehler at Buehler Enterprises, a family-owned company that remodels, builds, rents and sells homes in low- and moderate-income neighborhoods. Questions this month about Free the Children’s ability to show whether it has been effective prompted this look at its role in Northside Terrace, the first of its efforts to redevelop parts of North Memphis.
50 Years Ago — 1970
Riverfront Harbor Commission members, questioning recreational uses of Mud Island, yesterday requested a joint meeting with the Memphis Park Commission. Parks officials have begun engineering studies of a proposed 400-foot greenway along the west bank of the island. They plan soon to begin acquisition of property from private owners using funds partially supplied under a federal grant. The Riverfront Harbor Commission is charged with managing city-owned waterfront property north of the Mississippi River bridge.
75 Years Ago — 1945
Surrounded by Victory Gardens, a 1,225-square-foot plot of “innocent looking weeds” in a field on West Mclemore was identified by police Saturday as marijuana. A “reefer-ring” extending into Louisiana and Mississippi has been smashed, police announced.
100 Years Ago — 1920
Marion, Ohio – Senator Warren G. Harding and his advisers are making plans that probably will take him as far west as Denver, as far south as Memphis and include speeches in New York, Boston, Chicago and Indianapolis. 125 Years Ago — 1895
The report is making financial circles that Mrs. Hetty Green, president of the Texas Midland Railroad, has gone East to purchase supplies preparatory to building an extension of the Midland from Greenville, Texas, to Paris, Texas. This gives even more credibility to the rumor that Mrs. Green intends to buy the Little Rock & Memphis Railroad with view to completing a line from Memphis to the Southwest.