Virginus Leake / Collierville Telephone Company / DeSoto / /
Currency
cent / USD / /
Event
M&A / /
Facility
In Magnolia Cemetery / square of Collierville / Collierville Middle School building / Hester Hotel / Kelsey Brothers Mercantile store / Town square / Mill Street / Collierville Antique Mall / Bellevue College / Poplar Pike / Collierville’s Historic Town Square / /
IndustryTerm
transportation / fire fighting equipment / present site / /
Organization
Nonconnah Church / Protestant Episcopal Church / Collierville Middle School / Bellevue College / Miss Anna Holden’s School for Girls / Rotary Club / Christian Church / Episcopal Church / Methodist Church / Collierville Male Academy / /
Person
Anna Holden / Salem Presbyterian / Greg Baumgartner / Richard Ramsey / Mangrum / James Chalmers / Bolze / Jesse R. Collier / Martha Leake / Ed Kohler / E.K. Leake / John Shelby / Burk Culpepper / Andrew Jackson / Peter Adams / James B. Abington / H.W. Cox / Andrew G. Manning / James Monroe / William T. Sherman / Pat Strickland / Harrison Irby / / /
Position
Captain / Mayor / Executive Director / President / Union General / Director www.collierville.com/mainstreet Grant funds / first mayor / General / Confederate General / Professor / surveyor / /
ProvinceOrState
Shelby County / Fayette County / Tennessee / Mississippi / Henry County / Marshall / Arkansas / /
Some Scenes of Yesterday’s Collierville Left: In the early 1980’s this excursion train with a steam locomotive pulls into Collierville. Note the Hester Hotel in the background.