Workhouse Bayou

Workhouse Bayou is a stream in Shelby, Tennessee. Workhouse Bayou is situated nearby to the hamlet Hollywood, as well as near the suburb North Memphis.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Douglass High School and Memphis National Cemetery.

Douglass High School

School

Douglass High School is a public high school in Memphis, United States, Tennessee, operated in the Memphis-Shelby County Schools. Located in the African American Douglass neighborhood in North Memphis, it is named for Frederick Douglass, a 19th-century abolitionist.

Memphis National Cemetery

Cemetery

Photo: DoxTxob, Public domain.

Memphis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the Nutbush neighborhood in northeast Memphis, Tennessee. Administered by the United States Department of Veterans Affairs, it encompasses 44.2 acres, and as of the end of 2007, had 42,184 interments.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Hollywood and North Memphis.

Hollywood

Hamlet

Hollywood is a neighborhood on the north side of Memphis, Tennessee, United States.

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. North Memphis is situated 2 miles southwest of Workhouse Bayou.

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 2½ miles south of Workhouse Bayou.

Workhouse Bayou

Type: Stream
Category: body of water
Location: Shelby, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.18537° or 35° 11′ 7″ north

Longitude

-89.95648° or 89° 57′ 23″ west

Elevation

203 feet (62 metres)

Open location code

867G52PV+4C

GeoNames ID

4668945

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Satellite Map

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Douglass Park and James Road Park.

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