Penguin Rock

Penguin Rock is a locality in Shelby, Tennessee. Penguin Rock is situated nearby to the locality Once Upon A Farm, as well as near Herpetarium.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Overton Park Shell.

Memphis Brooks Museum of Art

Museum

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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.

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.

Circuit Playhouse

Theater building

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Circuit Playhouse is a theater building.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Midtown and North Memphis.

Midtown is a collection of neighborhoods in Memphis, Tennessee, to the east of Downtown. Midtown is home to many cultural attractions, institutions of higher education, and noteworthy pieces of architecture.

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.

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.

Penguin Rock

Type: Locality
Location: Shelby, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.15115° or 35° 9′ 4″ north

Longitude

-89.9963° or 89° 59′ 47″ west

Open location code

867G5223+FF

OpenStreetMap ID

node 1240771675

OpenStreetMap feature

place=locality

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Localities in the Area

Explore places such as Herpetarium and Once Upon A Farm.

Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include African Penguin and Warthog.

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