[tn-bird] Re: Movement North III
- From: OLCOOT1@xxxxxxx
- To: tn-bird@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 28 Apr 2002 19:18:25 EDT
In a message dated 4/28/02 2:53:22 PM Central Daylight Time,
rwf@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx writes:
> Jeff's e-mail convinced me to visit President's Island
> in Shelby County, TN. It is really just a peninsula
> which extends into the Mississippi River. It is heavy
> industry on the one side and almost complete
> wilderness on the other.
>
>
President's Island was a large island until they build Jack Carley Causeway
and developed the Industrial Park. There was also a Vice President's Island
that has now attached to the big island. Andrew Jackson once had a small farm
on the island but the big island was named that 28 years before he became
President. General Nathan Bedford Forrest retired to this island for a short
period of time after the war and ran a large farm. A hospital for people with
highly contagious diseases and a prison were located there and after the 20's
it attracted international attention for the cock fights held there.
Most of the island is privately owned and off limits. At the far western end
of the industrial area is a huge building that once produced atomic reactor
containment chambers. The crane that is still there and in operation, when
first built could pick up more dead weight than any other of that era. This
building now houses a top secret plant that tests submarine propellors for
silent running, so be careful where you point your glasses.
Many great birds have been seen on the island in both the industrial area and
the woods edges and fields over the years. It always pays just to run through
there, to see what might have dropped in.
Good Birding!!!
Jeff R. Wilson
OL' COOT / TLBA
Bartlett Tenn.
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