Velsicol

Velsicol is in Shelby, Tennessee. Velsicol is situated near True Bibleway Church of Memphis, as well as near Hill Chapel Baptist Church.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights: Memphis Brooks Museum of Art and Memphis National Cemetery.

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 2 miles southwest of Velsicol.

Memphis National Cemetery

Cemetery

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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. Memphis National Cemetery is situated 1½ miles northeast of Velsicol.

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. Douglass High School is situated 1 mile northeast of Velsicol.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Binghampton and Hollywood.

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.

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 1½ miles northwest of Velsicol.

Velsicol

Type: Brownfield land
Category: industry
Location: Shelby, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

35.16349° or 35° 9′ 49″ north

Longitude

-89.96461° or 89° 57′ 53″ west

Open location code

867G527P+95

OpenStreetMap ID

way 493447597

OpenStreetMap feature

landuse=brownfield

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights: True Bibleway Church of Memphis and Hill Chapel Baptist Church.

Nearby Places

Places to explore: PNC Corporation and Georgia Pacific Cellulose.

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