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7 unusual facts about Peabody Hotel


Andrew Jackson Donelson

He died at the Peabody Hotel, Memphis, Tennessee and is buried in Elmwood Cemetery.

Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art

The museums collection is based on the private collection of Memphis developers Jack and Marilyn Betz, who owned the Peabody Hotel and Peabody Place.

Elizabeth Avery Meriwether

One of the organizational meetings of the Ku Klux Klan took place in her kitchen in the Meriwether's Memphis home, which stood on the site of what is now the Peabody Hotel.

Memphis Jug Band

They were popular among white as well as black audiences, playing at country clubs and parties at the Peabody Hotel.

N. B. Hardeman

On May 18, 1959, friends and family held a 'surprise' 85th birthday party for Hardeman at the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis.

This Property Is Condemned

Alva and Owen first meet in the kitchen, where the girl tells a fanciful story about one of the workers taking her dancing at the Peabody Hotel in Memphis.

WREC

The two stations merged in 1929, and WREC moved to studios in the basement of the Peabody Hotel in downtown Memphis, where it would remain for over 40 years.



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