Overton Bayou
Overton Bayou is a stream in Shelby, Tennessee. Overton Bayou is situated nearby to the suburb North Memphis, as well as near the hamlet Hollywood.Places of Interest
Highlights include Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Overton Park Shell.
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art
Museum
Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is an art museum in Memphis, Tennessee. The Brooks Museum, which was founded in 1916, is the oldest and largest art museum in the state of Tennessee. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is situated 1½ miles south of Overton Bayou.
Overton Park Shell
Theater building
The Overton Park Shell is an open-air amphitheater and museum located in Overton Park, Memphis, Tennessee. Elvis Presley gave his first paid concert there on July 30, 1954. Overton Park Shell is situated 1½ miles south of Overton Bayou.
Circuit Playhouse
Theater building
Circuit Playhouse is a theater building, which is situated 2½ miles south of Overton Bayou.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include North Memphis and Hollywood.
North Memphis
Suburb
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North Memphis is one of the five defined districts of Memphis, Tennessee. It includes smaller neighborhoods such as Klondike, New Chicago, Douglass, Hyde Park, Hollywood, Nutbush, Binghampton, Smokey City, Scutterfeld, Frayser, and Raleigh.
Hollywood
Hamlet
Hollywood is a neighborhood on the north side of Memphis, Tennessee, United States.
Binghampton
Quarter
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Binghampton is a neighborhood on an edge of Midtown in Memphis, Tennessee. It is named after W. H. Bingham, an Irish immigrant, hotelier, planter, magistrate, politician, and entrepreneur who founded a town to the east and slightly north of the Memphis city limits in 1893. Binghampton is situated 1½ miles southeast of Overton Bayou.
Overton Bayou
- Type: Stream
- Category: body of water
- Location: Shelby, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.16759° or 35° 10′ 3″ northLongitude
-89.98981° or 89° 59′ 23″ westElevation
223 feet (68 metres)Open location code
867G5296+23GeoNames ID
4647544
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Localities in the Area
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