Nelson House Hotel

Historical marker location:

700 North Main Street, Columbia, Tennessee

( Marker is on North Main Street south of East 6th Street, on the right when traveling north.)

<i>A Tragic Death</i>.

architecture houses residential buildings

The city of Memphis, Tennessee, was the site of the assassination of civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. on April 4, 1968. The Lorraine Motel, where Dr. King was staying, is now the National Civil Rights Museum.