Talk:Highland Heights, Memphis

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This article is a stub. I don't pretend to be a historian, nor any sort of authority on Memphis' Highland Heights. I ran across some info, knew a little more, and the article was a red link. There's too much history dying on the vine. Our sources are becoming extinct. If you know a little, if you see a mistake, or if you just don't like my phraseology or vocab choices, have at it. It's a wiki!

[I don't know user:Mike Rosoft, who seems to want to hijack this page. He claims to be an administrator on his talk page, working to prevent vandalism. He also admits to being blocked under other names, which to me sounds like sock-puppetry, specifically banned on en.wikipedia. I am not, and have never been, a vandal. This page, as well as the article page referenced, was a redlink, so I recreated the page as the Ragityman, which is my legitimate pseudonym on several sites, and the only one I have ever used on wikipedia. I received notice of changes on this page. On checking for comments, I found only my own comments, with my signature erased, and this Mike Rosoft's signature appended. His talk page claims he is an admin, and that his pages are "vandal-traps." Please check the history of editing of this page, and I think you will find that "Mike's" contributions amount to removing my sig and replacing it with his own.]

Rags (talk) 07:16, 20 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Will be visiting the library soon, looking for secondary published sources. My sources at this point are oral history, combined with online sources even I wouldn't accept, but I have reason to believe the info is correct.

Rags (talk) 08:54, 20 August 2014 (UTC)[reply]

I'm thinking it might be a good idea to move this page to "Highland Heights, Memphis, Tennessee", as obviously there are, and have been, several towns and cities, modern and ancient, with the name "Memphis". I will eventually take a look at other neighborhood articles for Memphis, but this might possibly be a good idea for ALL of them. Rags (talk) 10:45, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

I have not yet obtained my copy of 'The Corners', but in speaking to an early resident more historically oriented than myself (as well as better educated), I am informed that before the "I-40" fiasco which created Sam Cooper Boulevard, an area significantly south of Summer/US 70 was considered part of the Heights. Maybe even as far south as Walnut Grove Road! No question that this is original research, and I, myself am more comfortable with the boundaries as delineated in the article. Her contention was that HH was a thriving community which was devastated by being bisected by the "interstate" (as was originally intended). The "interstate" was controversial from day one (all being long before I lived in Memphis), and was eventually re-designated Sam Cooper Blvd after a US Supreme Court decision involving the definition of a park and the rules of immanent domain. Officially, "I-40" is now what was originally designated I-240 "north leg", or "north loop". How much, if any, of this information is pertinent to this article, should be decided by concensus, not by me, but no one else (except Mike Rowe Soft) seems to ever read this page. C'est la vie! Rags (talk) 11:24, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

A more likely southern boundary might be the old railroad right-of-way south of the country club, now repurposed as the Green Line bike trail. Rags (talk) 11:33, 15 September 2016 (UTC)[reply]

John Pope established the plantation from which Highland Heights was carved. His father Leroy Pope, a wealthy planter, founded Huntsville (he called it Twickenham), AL, then a part of the Mississippi Territory. He sent John to Yale to study law, and John practiced law in Alabama and Georgia, until he married Louisa Rembert. He then became a planter like his dad, and raised five kids with Louisa over 20 years. After her death, John married Elizabeth Hemphill Jones, and the 1840 census found them in Shelby County, on 930 acres five milrs northeast of Memphis along the Raleigh Road (Jackson Avenue/Austin Peay Hwy) growing award-winning cotton. The London Crystal Palace Exhibition of 1851 awarded 10 medals, and John won one of them. The Brooks Museum of Art proudly displays that medal.

When the Confederate forces at Memphis surrendered, almost without firing a shot, John had on hand a record crop of cotton. To prevent its falling into Union hands, he burnt it all.

I don't know how much of this belongs in article-space. I seem to be a consensus of one here. rags (talk) 03:33, 25 April 2017 (UTC)[reply]