SHELBY FARMS: Hyde Lake to the Greenline

Shelby Farms, located in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, is one of the twenty largest urban parks in the United States. At a size of 4,500 acres (1,800 ha), it covers more than five times the area of Central Park in New York City with 843 acres (341 ha).Lakes, natural forests, and wetlands provide natural habitats for many smaller species close to an urban metropolitan area.

The Nashoba Community was an experimental project of Frances "Fanny" Wright, initiated in 1825 to educate and emancipate slaves. It was located in a 2,000-acre (8 km²) woodland on the side of present-day Germantown, Tennessee, a Memphis suburb, along the Wolf River. It was a small-scale test of her full-compensation emancipation plan in which no slaveholders would lose money for emancipating slaves.