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Relax and let your See Memphis Tour Guide show you the highlights of our fascinating City on the Bluff. Memphis has many nicknames – River City, Bluff City, Capital of the Mid-South, City of Good Abode, Spot Cotton Market Capital, Hardwood Lumber Capital, and others. You’ll learn why all these names apply and more. Memphis is located on the Mississippi River at the northern end of the Mississippi Delta where the blues were born. Its history is linked to cotton and to music. But Memphis is not only home to Elvis Presley and a host of other musicians, it was also home to authors Richard Halliburton and Shelby Foote; Clarence Saunders, who started Piggly Wiggly, the nation’s first supermarket; Kemmons Wilson, who founded Holiday Inn and changed the way America travels; Fred Smith, founder of Federal Express, the world’s first overnight package delivery service; actors Kathy Bates, George Hearn, Dixie Carter, Cybill Shepherd; and many others who make this city a remarkable place. You’ll drive past Mud Island, a Mississippi River Educational Park; Cotton Row, where 60% of the nation’s cotton was once traded; Tom Lee Park, home to Memphis in May International Barbecue Cooking Contest; National Civil Rights Museum, where Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated; St. Jude Children’s Research hospital, the largest research center of its kind in the world; and old neighborhoods such as the Pinch District. You’ll be entertained all the way and you’ll experience Southern Hospitality at its best!
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