Poplar Avenue Baptist Church

Poplar Avenue Baptist Church is a church in Shelby, Tennessee. Poplar Avenue Baptist Church is situated nearby to East High School, as well as near the hamlet Chickasaw Gardens.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include East High School and FedEx Institute of Technology.

East High School

School

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East High School is a public four-year magnet high school located in Memphis, Tennessee. East originally opened in 1948, as a K–12 school, and became exclusively a high-school in 2008. East High School is situated 1,100 feet northwest of Poplar Avenue Baptist Church.

FedEx Institute of Technology

University building

The University of Memphis is a public research university in Memphis, Tennessee, United States. Founded in 1912, the university has an enrollment of more than 20,000 students. FedEx Institute of Technology is situated 1 mile southeast of Poplar Avenue Baptist Church.

Messick High School

School

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Messick High School was a public high school in Memphis, Tennessee, established in 1908 and operated from 1909 to 1981. The main building was demolished in 1982, but Memphis City Schools used some other former Messick facilities to house the Messick Adult Education Center. Messick High School is situated 1¼ miles south of Poplar Avenue Baptist Church.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Chickasaw Gardens and Binghampton.

Chickasaw Gardens

Hamlet

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Chickasaw Gardens is an established upscale neighborhood in midtown Memphis, Tennessee.

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 northwest of Poplar Avenue Baptist Church.

Orange Mound

Suburb

Orange Mound is a neighborhood in southeastern Memphis, Tennessee. It was the first US neighborhood to be built by African Americans. Built on the grounds of the former Deaderick plantation, the Orange Mound subdivision was developed for African Americans in the 1890s to provide affordable land and residences for the less wealthy. Orange Mound is situated 2 miles southwest of Poplar Avenue Baptist Church.

Poplar Avenue Baptist Church

Type: Church
Category: religion
Location: Shelby, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.12926° or 35° 7′ 45″ north

Longitude

-89.95231° or 89° 57′ 8″ west

Elevation

302 feet (92 metres)

Open location code

867G42HX+P3

GeoNames ID

4650704

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