TNSHELBY-D-request@rootsweb.com wrote: > Subject: > > TNSHELBY-D Digest Volume 98 : Issue 13 > > Today's Topics: > #1 President's Island in Memphis [harry <hdveatch@erols.com>] > #2 Re: President's Island in Memphis [Laurel Crook <lcrook@fhu.edu>] > > Administrivia: > To unsubscribe from TNSHELBY-D, send a message to > > TNSHELBY-D-request@rootsweb.com > > that contains in the body of the message the command > > unsubscribe > > and no other text. No subject line is necessary, but if your software > requires one, just use unsubscribe in the subject, too. > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: President's Island in Memphis > Date: Tue, 06 Oct 1998 17:41:16 -0700 > From: harry <hdveatch@erols.com> > To: TNSHELBY-L@rootsweb.com > > I am trying to locate what was called "President's Island" in Memphis, > TN. It has either disappeared or has been renamed. Can anyone help me? I > have a 2g grandfather that lived on the Island in 1855. > Also does anyone have any connection to an Aaron B. Stearns died in > Memphis about 1856? > > Thank you in advance > Harry > hdveatch@erols.com > > ______________________________ > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: President's Island in Memphis > Date: Wed, 07 Oct 1998 08:29:35 -0600 > From: Laurel Crook <lcrook@fhu.edu> > To: TNSHELBY-L@rootsweb.com > > Yes, it's still there as far as I know. There was some kind of fire on it > last year I believe. It was on the news. There are factories and stuff on > it as far as I know. > > Laurel Crook > lcrook@fhu.edu > > Researching the history and families of Island 35, aka Reverie, Tipton Co., TN > > >I am trying to locate what was called "President's Island" in Memphis, > >TN. It has either disappeared or has been renamed. Can anyone help me? I > >have a 2g grandfather that lived on the Island in 1855. > >Also does anyone have any connection to an Aaron B. Stearns died in > >Memphis about 1856? > > > >Thank you in advance > >Harry > >hdveatch@erols.com > > ======================================================= > White Co., IL, ILGenWeb Site: http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilwhite2 > Personal Web Site: http://www.fhu.edu/~lcrook Harry, President's Island is an industrial park now. The Corps of Engineers has a large prescence there and so does the US Navy (a cavitation research facility). The island is just south of downtown Memphis and has access to the Mississippi river. also, McKellar lake is there, Elvis Presley's favorite sking spot.