Originally called City Island, the name changed to Mud Island in the 1950s, reflecting its origin. The island housed Memphis Downtown Airport in the 1960s-70s until Interstate 40 construction led to ...
The Memphis Flyer is Memphis’ alternative newsweekly, serving the metro Memphis area of nearly a million residents. The Flyer was started in 1989 by Contemporary Media, Inc., the locally owned ...
Though Mud Island may be a familiar part of Memphis life now, it hasn't always been a part of the city. Mud Island, which started as an island and developed into a peninsula, wasn't created until ...