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Shelby County was the home of an early inland waterway, the Coosa River, and it was also the location of a very early east-west railroad in Alabama that connected Atlanta, Georgia, with locations to its west.
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* Mode, Illinois, an unincorporated community in Shelby County, Illinois
Category: Geography of Shelby County, Texas
* Windsor, Shelby County, Illinois
Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U. S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County.
Shelby County is located over four natural aquifers, one of which is recognized as the " Memphis sand aquifer " or simply as the " Memphis aquifer ".
The Memphis Metropolitan Statistical Area ( MSA ), the 42nd largest in the United States, has a 2010 population of 1, 316, 100 and includes the Tennessee counties of Shelby, Tipton, and Fayette, as well as the Mississippi counties of DeSoto, Marshall, Tate, and Tunica, and Crittenden County, Arkansas.
Several major motion pictures, most of which were recruited and assisted by the Memphis & Shelby County Film and Television Commission, have been filmed in Memphis, including Making the Grade ( 1984 ), Elvis and Me ( 1988 ), Great Balls of Fire!
Former Shelby County mayor A C Wharton is the current mayor.
In recent years, there have been often rancorous discussions of the potential of a consolidation of unincorporated Shelby County and Memphis into a metropolitan government.
Consolidation was a referendum item on the 2010 ballot in Memphis and Shelby County, but failed with 85 % of the county voting against it.
The city is served by Memphis City Schools, while surrounding suburbs in other areas of Shelby County are served by Shelby County Schools.
However, on March 8, 2011, residents voted to disband Memphis City Schools, effectively merging it with the Shelby County School District.
This is the largest three-service municipal utility in the United States, providing electricity, natural gas, and pure water service to all residents of Shelby County.
The Memphis and Shelby County region supports numerous hospitals, including the Methodist and Baptist Memorial health systems, two of the largest private hospitals in the country.
The facility was built in 1991 and was originally owned and operated jointly by the city of Memphis and Shelby County.
Examines the political rise of two minorities, African-Americans and Republicans, after the demise of the machine politics of the Shelby County Democratic Party and the political boss Ed Crump.
Category: Populated places in Shelby County, Tennessee
* Brunswick, Tennessee, in Shelby County
Lady Justice | Justitia, symbol of the judiciary ( statue at Shelby County Courthouse, Memphis, TN, United States )
Scruggs was born near Shelby, Cleveland County, North Carolina, to Georgia Lula Ruppe and George Elam Scruggs, a farmer and bookkeeper, who played banjo and died when Scruggs was four years old.
* Jacksonville, Kentucky ( Shelby County )
* Germantown, Shelby County, Tennessee, a city
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After a season-long series of dismal results under John Wyer in 1964, the program was handed over to Carroll Shelby after the 1964 Nassau race.
Carroll Shelby was noted for complaining that the cars were poorly maintained when he received them, but later information revealed the cars were packed up as soon as the race was over, and FAV never had a chance to clean, and organize the cars to be transported to Shelby.
The real purpose of this car was to test several improvements originating from Kar Kraft, Shelby and McLaren.
The Regulator – Moderator War was a land feud in Harrison and Shelby Counties in East Texas from 1839 to 1844.
The deal — alleged by onetime Senators broadcaster Shelby Whitfield to have been made in order to secure the Tigers ' vote in favor of the Senators ' eventual move to Texas — turned Detroit back into contenders, while McLain was a monumental bust, losing an embarrassing league-worst of 22 games.
Zanuck was similarly campaigning for actor Reginald Gardiner to play the role of Shelby, though Fox contractee Vincent Price finally got the role.
Shelby County was established on February 7, 1818, and it was named for the Revolutionary War hero and the first Governor of Kentucky, Isaac Shelby ( 1750 – 1826 ).
Shelby County was also crossed by an early north-south railroad, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad, that connected Louisville, Nashville, Decatur, Birmingham, and Montgomery.
With the advent of the automobile and the truck, Shelby County was soon crossed from north to south by U. S. Highway 31, the major one that followed the same route as the Louisville and Nashville Railroad did.
Decades later on, Shelby County was crossed by Interstate Highway 65.
In 1792 the European-American pioneer John Hardin was killed by the Shawnee in Shelby County.
Shelby County was created in 1819 from Miami County.
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The Tri-Cities is also home to Shelby SuperCars.
The family settled on a farm near his uncle's home in Madison, but moved to Shelby County in 1822.
At the end of his time in the land office, he returned to his Shelby County home.
The “ Old Courthouse ” is now home to the Shelby County Museum and Archives.
Today, Columbiana is home to the Shelby County Board of Education, the Shelby County Sheriff's Office, the Shelby County Jail, and Harrison Regional Library, which is the main office for the Shelby County Library System.
Shelby County is home to Shelby Eastern Schools, Shelbyville Central Schools, Northwestern Consolidated Schools, and Southwestern Consolidated School Corporation.
This home still stands today on Shelby Street.
* Charter Township of Shelby home page
In 1873, Horace A. Cowles ( Civil War Veteran ) set up the Cyclone post office in his home one mile east and one mile south of present-day Shelby.
* American Legion World Series-Between 2011 and 2013 Shelby will play host to the American Legion World Series with a view to becoming the permanent home of the tournament.
Assured that his plan would be carried out, Shelby returned home and promised to return the following spring with 300 men.
Shelby later lamented the fact that General Nathanael Greene, who relieved Gates only days after Shelby departed for home, claimed the lion's share of the credit for Cowpens when it was Shelby's plan that had put Morgan in the position to begin with.
Upon his return home, Shelby and his father were named commissioners to negotiate a treaty between colonial settlers and the Chickamauga.
Camp Shelby is also home to the Youth Challenge Academy ( a military structured GED and State High School diploma program established in 1994 to aid Mississippi High school dropouts, ages 16 – 18, designed and operated by the National Guard Bureau ) and the Mississippi Armed Forces Museum.
John Shelby singled to left, but Heep was held up at third on the throw home as Shelby took second.
Beta Lambda Delta, the Shelby Campus chapter of two year institution Honor's Society Phi Theta Kappa, came in as Fourth Alternate internationally in 2007, taking home 7 awards total.
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