Visit Midtown Memphis. ... by KW38104
Visit Midtown Memphis. Adjacent to downtown, Midtown is what Memphis is all about. Lots of antique shops and restaurants in the Overton square area, and grand old southern Mansions, with beautiful gardens. This is where the all the old Cotton money used to live. Also take a walk across the Auction Avenue Bridge just north of The Pyramid to Harbortown. Walk or Rollerblade along the beautiful paths that front the Mississippi, and explore one of Memphis neatest new housing areas. Have an extra day? Head down to Oxford Mississippi. Oxford is where the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) is and was the home of writer William Faulkner. Ole Miss has one of the most beautiful campuses anywhere, it was spared by Grant in the Civil war, while the rest of Oxford was burned. The main Administrative building (called the Lyceum) was a Civil War hospital, and was the site where US Marshalls dug in during a night of rioting in 1962 when the Kennedy Boys forcefully integrated Ole Miss. The columns of the building still bear some bullet nicks. Also tour Rowan Oak (Faulkners house), and walk around the town square. Oxford is 80 miles South of Memphis, and is well worth the trip.