Veterans Plaza at Overton Park

Veterans Plaza at Overton Park is a memorial in Shelby, Tennessee. Veterans Plaza at Overton Park is situated nearby to Overton Park Greensward, as well as near the theater building Overton Park Shell.

Places of Interest Nearby

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

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 680 feet south of Veterans Plaza at Overton Park.

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. Memphis Brooks Museum of Art is situated 1,000 feet south of Veterans Plaza at Overton Park.

Circuit Playhouse

Theater building

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Circuit Playhouse is a theater building, which is situated 1 mile south of Veterans Plaza at Overton Park.

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.

Lenox

Hamlet

Lenox is a neighborhood in Memphis, Tennessee. It is bounded by Central Avenue in the south, Union Avenue in the north, Cooper Street in the west and East Parkway South in the east.

Veterans Plaza at Overton Park

Type: Memorial
Category: historic site
Location: Shelby, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.14732° or 35° 8′ 50″ north

Longitude

-89.99413° or 89° 59′ 39″ west

Open location code

867G42W4+W8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 274849978

OpenStreetMap feature

historic=memorial

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Overton Park Greensward and Rainbow Lake Park.

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