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Source Collection
Commercial Appeal newspaper morgue, Special Collections Department, University of Memphis Libraries
Identifier
sc.0452.01.007_004.002
Description
Tom Lee Park, formerly Astor Park, at Riverside and Beale, July 56, 1953, looking north. The park was named after Tom Lee, the African American river worker who saved 32 passengers from a sinking steamboat in 1925.
Date Created
7-14-2021
Date
1953 July 6
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Recommended Citation
"Tom Lee Park, Memphis, Tennessee, 1953" (2021). Memphis. 219.
https://digitalcommons.memphis.edu/speccoll-mss-commercialappeal4/219
Keywords
Memphis (Tenn.)--Landmarks., Parks--Tennessee--Memphis., Tom Lee Park (Memphis, Tenn.)
