3. I Remember Raleigh, by Mary Winslow Chapman, 1977
Standing today on the Wolf River bridge at
Raleigh and looking down into the muddy
water below, we seem to see nothing more
than an ugly, man-made drainage ditch of
no importance to anyone. But to make such
an estimate is to overlook a vital part of the
early history of West Tennessee and to be
most ungrateful to this constant little stream
which made Memphis a port city and put
Raleigh where it is today.
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10. 1824: Wolf declared navigable up to
Moscow by Tennessee General
Assembly.
1840: Tennessee General Assembly
declares it not navigable (probably
in favor of railroad interests.
1844: The flat boat Forlorn Hope
carries 83 bales of cotton from
Moscow to Memphis.
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11. Wolf River Water Works (discontinued in
1888 in favor of artesian wells)
1962: Digging diversion channel,
creating a new mouth for the
Wolf at the north end of Mud Island.
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12. 1964: Channelization of the Wolf from its
mouth to Germantown (Gray’s Creek) is
completed.
1970: Wolf River pronounced "dead" around
Memphis.
1985: Wolf River Conservancy organized.
1987: Shelby County government first
proposes a “Wolf River Greenway” concept.
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