White haven is where Graceland is located. Anyone know the history of the area? Didn’t look too nice when I went to see the King.
Used to be a great area in the 50’s and 60’s. Downhill since the 70’s. The first indoor mall in Memphis opened there around 1966. I remember traveling there from across town with my family. In the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s used to be a great business area, not sure about now. Haven’t been down in that part of town in a long long time. Lived in Memphis 50+ years and never been to Graceland. Love “The King” though.
Mostly black area.
My wife and I graduated from WHS in 1962, married, started a family. Whitehaven was an unincorporated area of Shelby Co. with a population of about 50K it was generally considerd upscale. We built a house there and moved back in 1965-66 in an area 4 blocks from an elementary school that was planned and being built to expand to grades 1-12. The area was annexed by Memphis and around 1970 the court ordered school busing started, we had three children in elementary school and they were assigned to three different schools with three different starting times and none of them at the school four blocks from our house. We did as the board of education requested and gave it a week and then visited the schools to see how it was going, we already had an idea from our children. At each school we walked the halls observed, observed their classrooms and pulled each child out of the school. Sold the house for less than it cost me and left Whitehaven with thousands of others. It’s now one of the areas of Memphis I avoid unless I have to be on the Interstate.