Memphis and Hernando Plank Road

[6] In August 1851, Thomas Peters and slave trader Byrd Hill advertised that they sought to hire out between 50 and 100 enslaved male laborers to build the road.

"[10] The opening of the Tennessee and Mississippi Railroad train station in Hernando in 1856 significantly cut into the plank road's revenues.

[2] The road may have been the site of a duel held 12 miles south of Memphis in which Alonzo Greenlaw killed Henderson Taylor.

[11] During the American Civil War, the death of a civilian named William H. White who lived along the Memphis and Hernando plank road led to an exchange of tersely worded letters between U.S. Army General William T. Sherman and the Confederate Army commander in Mississippi J. C.

[12] According to a WPA-produced history of DeSoto County, Mississippi, Nathan Bedford Forrest and his men rode the plank road into Memphis at the time of their infamous 1864 raid.