African Lion
African Lion is in Shelby, Tennessee. African Lion is situated nearby to Cat Country, as well as near Cheetah.Places of Interest Nearby
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 2,200 feet south of African Lion.
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 1,900 feet south of African Lion.
Circuit Playhouse
Theater building
Circuit Playhouse is a theater building, which is situated 1 mile south of African Lion.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Midtown and Binghampton.
Midtown
Suburb
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.
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.
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 1½ miles north of African Lion.
African Lion
- Type: Tourist attraction
- Category: tourism
- Location: Shelby, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
35.1506° or 35° 9′ 2″ northLongitude
-89.99496° or 89° 59′ 42″ westOpen location code
867G5224+62OpenStreetMap ID
way 1506227349OpenStreetMap feature
attraction=animalOpenStreetMap feature
tourism=attraction
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