Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Memphis, MI

Memphis is a city that straddles the border between Macomb and St. Clair counties in Michigan, divided almost evenly between the two counties.

The first European American settlers in Memphis were members of the Wells family from Albany, New York — Anthony Wells arrived in 1834 and James Wells in 1835 — and the community was originally called Wells Settlement.

The name Memphis was chosen in 1848 when a U.S. post office was established, because settlers thought the town's bluff overlooking the Belle River resembled the position of Memphis, Egypt, the ancient city on the Nile.

Memphis was incorporated as a village on April 4, 1865, and it did not become a city until 1953.

The 2020 census counted 1,084 people in Memphis, down from 1,183 residents in 474 households at the 2010 census.

In the winter of 1884–1885, Memphis mechanics John Clegg and his son Thomas built a steam-powered, four-seat road vehicle nicknamed "The Thing" in their local machine shop — the first recorded automobile built in Michigan — and a state historical marker in the city commemorates it.

The Belle River flows along the northern and eastern sides of Memphis, and in the lumber era log rafts were floated down it to the St. Clair River and on to Detroit.

Maryglade College, a seminary college, was located in Memphis from 1960 until it closed in May 1972.

Memphis Community Schools operates an elementary school and a junior/senior high school for the city, and its sports teams are known as the Yellowjackets.

Highway M-19 serves as Memphis's Main Street, and the city's official motto is "A Pleasant Place to Live."