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We would like to provide the residents of  Memphis  a basic history overview.


Welcome to the Memphis Home page. The Memphis Home page provides as much information as possible on Memphis. Knowing Memphis’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Memphis’s Home page, you will also find Memphis’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.

Memphis has a population of 10702. 49.5% of Memphis’s inhabitants are Male, and 50.5 are female. 39.3% of Memphis is married and 71.2% own their own home. The Average Home price is $186,394, and the average rent is $1,028. Household median income in Memphis is $56,197, and the individual median income is $23,163. Memphis’s Ethnic is the following: White(51.1%), Black(38.7%), Hispanic(22.2%), Other(4.5%), Multiple(4.1%), Asian(0.9%), Native(0.7%).


The community can trace its roots back to the 1880s, when it was planned as an 80-acre subdivision, adjacent to the city of Palmetto. Tennessee-born Robert Willis (1855-1933) originally owned the land, but eventually it was sold to I.E. Barwick (1854-1924) who subdivided it. The community's traditional borders roughly lie on the west side of 16th Avenue East and just on the west side of U.S.


41, and between 17th and 25th Streets East. An 1897 Manatee County directory mentions a handful of establishments, from a clothing store to a crate mill and a bakery then under construction.Over time, the area eventually became a predominantly African American community in the segregation era. The Old Memphis cemetery is the resting place of over 600 individuals.


Many of the graves are of these early African American settlers, some of whom were freed slaves. The cemetery lies north of the community and was closed by the 1970s. Early residents included the Reverend Daniel and Isabel Baity. Reverend Baity became the first minister of the first African American church in Sarasota.


The identity of the close-knit community was interrupted with the construction of U.S. 41 in the 1960s. In more recent years, the old cemetery fell into disrepair and was cleaned up on several occasions. An historical marker was erected in 2013 at the entrance of the Old Memphis cemetery.


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