Nutbush is a long-standing neighborhood in northeastern Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis, Tennessee

Memphis is a city in the southwestern corner of the U.S. state of Tennessee, and the county seat of Shelby County. The city is located on the 4th Chickasaw Bluff, south of the confluence of the Wolf and Mississippi rivers....

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Even though Nutbush has expanded it remains a relatively small area with modestly sized houses.

Geography

It is bordered by the CSX railroad to the north; Graham Street to the east; Bayliss Ave to the south, and North Highland Street to the west. Nutbush is adjacent to the city's Berclair

Berclair, Memphis

Berclair is a district of Memphis, Tennessee. It is named after a major street in this district.-Geography:Berclair is bordered by the CSX railroad in the North; Interstate 40, Covington Pike, and Stratford Road in the East; Summer Avenue in the South and Graham Street in the West.-Development:The...

 neighborhood.

National Cemetery

The Memphis National Cemetery

Memphis National Cemetery

Memphis National Cemetery is a United States National Cemetery located in the Nutbush neighborhood of the City of Memphis, in Shelby County, Tennessee...

 is located in Nutbush, Memphis. On 44.2 acres (0.18 km²), the cemetery had 42,184 interments at the end of 2007.

Several battlefield cemeteries from the American Civil War

American Civil War

The American Civil War was a civil war fought in the United States of America. In response to the election of Abraham Lincoln as President of the United States, 11 southern slave states declared their secession from the United States and formed the Confederate States of America ; the other 25...

 era were transferred to Memphis and many of the dead from the steamboat Sultana

Sultana (steamboat)

The SS Sultana was a Mississippi River steamboat paddlewheeler whose destruction in an explosion on April 27, 1865 was the greatest maritime disaster in United States history. An estimated 1,800 of the Sultanas 2,400 passengers were killed when three of the ship's four boilers exploded and the...

explosion on April 26, 1865 were buried in Memphis National Cemetery.