Named for the Spanish governor Manuel Gayoso de Lemos, the Gayoso Bayou was a five-mile long drainage canal that wound its way through the city of Memphis. It formed a natural boundary for the city when it was first layed out in 1819 and played an important role in the devastating yellow fever epidemics of the 1870s. Though mostly buried today, the bayou still flows beneath present-day Danny Thomas Blvd. Historian Jimmy Ogle has explored the Gayoso Bayou and shares his advertures during this presentation.

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