Around Stanton, Memphis Zoo leads the list
Stanton and its surroundings hold 4 museums, 3 gardens and a zoo & aquarium. The town has no place on our list of its own; 10 are within 40 miles. Travel 44 mi and you reach SS Sultana.
SS Sultana
US steamboat that exploded on April 27, 1865.
The towns around it, and where to stay →
The lie of the land
The map puts most of the 10 to the southwest.
Orange: Stanton. Numbers: the best-known places, matching the list below. © OpenStreetMap contributors
Every place, in and near Stanton
32 places make the list, every one within 60 miles.
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3National Civil Rights Museum
Hotel that was site of the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., now a museum.
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5Blues Hall of Fame
Award by Blues Foundation, since 2015 also a music museum in Memphis, Tennessee.
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7Graceland Too
Two-story home and shrine to Elvis Presley in Holly Springs, Mississippi.
8Shiloh National Military Park
National military park in Tennessee and Mississippi, United States.
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12Chickasaw Gardens
Human settlement in Memphis, Tennessee, United States of America.
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Boling-Gatewood House
Historic house, home of the Ida B. Wells-Barnett Museum.
Art Museum of the University of Memphis
Abbreviation for the Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Tennessee.
Lichterman Nature Center
Arboretum and nature center in East Memphis, Tennessee, USA.
Edge Motor Museum
Automobile Museum in Memphis Tennessee, focusing on classic American Cars.
Oaklawn Garden
Botanical garden, park, local history museum in Germantown, Tennessee.
Ranked by how many people look them up, so the famous places lead and the local favorites follow.
Parks and trails in Stanton → · Stanton’s history →
Photo credits
SS Sultana: Template:Thomas W. Bankes, Public domain · Simmons Bank Liberty Stadium: Quintin Soloviev, CC BY 4.0 · National Civil Rights Museum: Matthew T Rader, CC BY-SA 4.0 · FedExForum: Marco Espino-Ovalle, Public domain · Blues Hall of Fame: John Phelan, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Mid-South Coliseum: bcbuckner, CC BY 2.0 · Graceland Too: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]), CC BY 3.0 · Shiloh National Military Park: Ernest Mettendorf, Public domain · Memphis Zoo: Unicurse, CC BY 3.0 · Pink Palace Museum and Planetarium: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Pinson Mounds: Brian Stansberry, CC BY 3.0 · Chickasaw Gardens: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]), CC BY 3.0 · Stax Museum: Victor Chapa from Denton, USA, CC BY 2.0 · Orpheum Theatre: Claire H. from New York City, USA, CC BY-SA 2.0 · Memphis Brooks Museum of Art: Michael Gäbler, CC BY 3.0 · Dixon Gallery and Gardens: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Metal Museum: No machine-readable author provided. JeremyA assumed (based on copyright claims), CC BY-SA 2.5 · Children's Museum of Memphis: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Boling-Gatewood House: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Burkle Estate: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Memphis Botanic Garden: KENPEI, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Art Museum of the University of Memphis: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Belz Museum of Asian and Judaic Art: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Lichterman Nature Center: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · The Cotton Museum: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Edge Motor Museum: KyleStockton92, CC BY-SA 4.0 · Fire Museum of Memphis: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY 3.0 · Jesse H Turner Park: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY 3.0 · Memphis Railroad & Trolley Museum: Thomas R Machnitzki ([email protected]), CC BY 3.0 · Memphis Rock N' Soul Museum: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0 · Oaklawn Garden: Thomas R Machnitzki, CC BY-SA 3.0
