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'''Raleigh''' is a neighborhood in north-central [[Memphis, Tennessee]] named for a formerly incorporated town that used to be at its center. Raleigh boundaries is with the 38128 zip code.<ref>{{Cite web|title=ZIP Code 38128 Map, Demographics, More for Memphis, TN|url=https://www.unitedstateszipcodes.org/38128/|access-date=2021-03-10|website=www.unitedstateszipcodes.org}}</ref> The area is bordered on the west by the community of [[Frayser, Memphis|Frayser]] (the boundary being the north-south Illinois Central Railroad tracks, which formed the Memphis city limits until 1975), on the east by the incorporated [[suburb]] of [[Bartlett, Tennessee|Bartlett]], on the south by the Wolf River and [[Interstate 40]], and on the north by the Memphis city limits. The former town of Raleigh was the first county seat of [[Shelby County, Tennessee]]. ▼
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| name = Raleigh, Memphis
| settlement_type = [[Community]]
| postal_code = 38128
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| area_code_type = [[Area code]]
| area_code = [[Area code 901|901]]
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| elevation_ft = 262
| elevation_m = 80
| established_title = Settled
| established_date = 1824
| area_total_sq_mi = 22.66
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▲'''Raleigh''' is a
==Geography==
Situated along a high bluff on the [[Wolf River (Tennessee)|Wolf River]], Raleigh is one of the highest points in the Memphis area. The old town's center, which was located around the intersection of today's James Road/Stage Road and Old Austin Peay Highway, had a commanding view of the river. Mary Winslow Chapman in her 1977 memoir ''I Remember Raleigh,'' provided these vivid descriptions of the Wolf River in its natural state (before [[River engineering#Channelization|channelization]]):
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==History==
Formerly an incorporated city, Raleigh was the county seat of
The town was named by Joseph Graham, the first circuit clerk of the county, who was from the [[Raleigh, North Carolina]] area. The stone courthouse was situated between James and Fayette roads; a warehouse was later built on the site at 4216 Fayette Road. After the town lost its status as county seat in 1866, the courthouse was dismantled and the stone was used to construct the courthouse in nearby Bartlett, which had incorporated that same year.<ref>[https://www.cityofbartlett.org/55/History "History"], City of Bartlett, Tennessee, retrieved 2019-06-28.</ref>
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Raleigh Cemetery, on Old Raleigh-Lagrange Road, is the final resting place of many of the area's early settlers, such as the Colemans, the Burrows, the second mayor of Memphis, Isaac Rawlings, and relatives of Isaac Shelby, the county's namesake. This cemetery was founded in the 1840s.<ref>Tennessee historical marker on Old Raleigh-Lagrange Road.</ref>
=== Annexation ===
On January 1, 1973, Raleigh was annexed by the City of Memphis.<ref>[https://shelbycountytn.gov/DocumentCenter/View/21645/Annexation-Ordinances-history?bidId= Document Center View Annexation Ordinances <nowiki>''</nowiki>Raleigh"] December 31, 1972</ref> The northern part of Raleigh was annexed by the City of Memphis under an ordinance signed in November 2005
==Economy==
With the exception of a large [[Nike, Inc.|Nike]] distribution center on New Frayser-Raleigh Road,<ref>[https://www.wmcactionnews5.com/story/29415166/nike-distribution-center-expands-in-memphis/ "Nike Distribution Center expands in Memphis"], WMC-TV, June 26, 2015.</ref> Raleigh's business community is almost exclusively retail. The two main commercial corridors are Covington Pike and Austin Peay Highway, which meet at a major intersection that includes Methodist North Healthcare Hospital on one corner and a Walmart Supercenter and other businesses on the other.
The southern section of Covington Pike comprises Memphis's largest collection of automobile dealerships and related businesses. The area around Stage Road offers fast food and casual restaurants, shopping centers, and major retailers such as Home Depot. Austin Peay Highway likewise is crowded with fast food and casual restaurants, shopping centers, grocery stores, and [[Raleigh Springs Mall]], which was the community's commercial center from its opening in 1971 into the 1990s. It later struggled to retain tenants because of competition from newer complexes and other changes.<ref>John Beifuss, [https://web.archive.org/web/20120111193331/http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/dec/07/curtain-falls-at-malco-raleigh-springs-cinema/ "Curtain falls at Malco Raleigh Springs Cinema"], ''Commercial Appeal'', December 7, 2011, archived from [http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2011/dec/07/curtain-falls-at-malco-raleigh-springs-cinema/ the original] on January 11, 2012.</ref> In 2016 the City of Memphis bought up the mall to build
==Education==
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