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Butler Race Track c. 1825 / Memphis Conference Female Institute 1843-1923

Butler Race Track c. 1825 / Memphis Conference Female Institute 1843-1923 is a Tennessee historical marker in Madison County.

440 East Chester Street

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William E. Butler, who served as Surgeon-General to Andrew Jackson in New Orleans, owned a race track located on this block. Jackson and his wife, Rachel Donelson Jackson, attended races here in 1825. In 1843 Dr. Butler donated the site for a school for young women of the Mid-South known as the Memphis Conference Female Institute. After eighty years the school was relocated in Jackson as a coeducational institution and was renamed Lambuth College.

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Historical maps covering this location

1824 · Kentucky (Finley, 1824) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1825 · Kentucky And Tennessee. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1827 · Kentucky (A. Finley, 1827) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1829 · Tennessee (A. Finley, 1829) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)
1832 · Kentucky (Finley, 1832) (Barry Lawrence Ruderman Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

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