Jimmy Ogle offers free, handicapped accessible, 45 minute tours of downtown Memphis accompanied by fascinating historical information he presents in a fun and informative way. He has several tours, each covering more or less 4-blocks of historic downtown.

Remaining regular Downtown Walking Tours
Unless otherwise noted, the following tours begin at 11:45 a.m.
The 2011 tour walking tour season has ended, the 2012 schedule is below.

• May 15 - The Pinch District (meet at Main/Overton Trolley Station) (Note: this tour will be conducted by Mike Freeman substituting for Jimmy Ogle)
  
• May 22 - Madison Avenue (meet at Madison/Front, University of Memphis Law School)
  
• May 29 - Union Avenue Manhole Cover & History Tour (meet at Union/Front, Front Street Deli)
• Sunday, June 3,  3:06 p.m.,November 6th Street  (meet at 126 Beale Street) - lasts 2+ hours.
  

Shelby County Courthouse Tours
(meet at at noon on southwest steps of the Courthouse (Second/Adams)

• Thursday, May 24
  

Special Tours and Talks

    Riverfront Park Series Walking Tours (all start at 10 a.m.) Each tour includes additional commentary on the Mississippi River and city history.

• Saturday, May 19-meet at Greenbelt Park, south parking lot near roundabout-Tour includes Greenbelt Park,Harbortown, Wolf Harbor, Montessori School, Harbortown Marina

    Memphis & Arkansas Bridge Walks & Talks (all start at 2 p.m). Meet at Crump Park, just south of I-55 on Metal Museum Drive

• Saturday, May 19
  
  

  Sesquicentennial Civil War Days

• Wednesday, June 6-Battle of Memphis Sesquicentennial Commemoration, Confederate Park, 12 noon. 
  
  
• Saturday, June 9-10, 10 a.m - 5 p.m. at Mud Island River Park-Mississippi River Museum, costumed interpreters will be stationed in all five Civil War galleries presenting the history of the Civil War that occurred along the Mississippi, Tennessee and Cumberland rivers. In the Museum Theatre, various and diverse Lectures and Performances will be given over the two-day weekend.
  Topics:
  
  
• “GONE: A Photographic Plea For Preservation” by Nell Dickerson
• “The Sultana Tragedy” by Jerry Potter
• The Naval Battle Of Memphis by Doug Cupples
• Belles Of The Battlefield by Cookie Swain
• “FEETS: Colored Troops In The Civil War” by Dr. James Gholson
• Gen. U. S Grant by Dr. Curt Fields
• Contraband Camps by Elaine Turner
• The Moving Appeal by Jimmy Ogle
• Forrest Raid On Memphis by Alan Doyle & Ed Williams
• The Civil War And Elmwood Cemetery by Donald Harrison
• Modern Memphis & The Civil War by Jimmy Ogle
  

Jimmy Ogle will crank up his "Dutch Treat" Caravans in 2012 with excursions to Randolph, Halls, Meeman-Shelby Forest State Park, C.H. Nash Museum Chucalissa and the Sultana steamboat sinking site.

The downtown walking history tours are "not to be missed." Some people, like the editor of this web site, go again and again, enjoy it every time, and wish some of that historical information would sink into his memory. Then again, maybe it's more fun to "learn" about downtown over and over. See you there!

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Jimmy Ogle tours:
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356 N. Main
Memphis, TN.
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