![]() ![]() The tobacco and livestock farm was owned by C. Hardwick Farms in Cleveland includes a 1930s Spanish revival house. The shelter is part of a gated community and it has been used as a community center. Rooms included a kitchen, male and female dormitories, recreation room, bathrooms, radio communication room, and a morgue. ![]() Historians say engineer and radio and founder of WREG-TV Hoyt Wooten designed and built the Cold War-era shelter in the backyard of his 27 acre home.īuilt in the early 1960s, the shelter was designed to hold 65 people for a month if a nuclear bomb was dropped near Memphis. The Wooten Fallout Shelter in Memphis is one of the sites named to the register. The Tennessee Historical Commission said in a news release Thursday that the eight properties have been deemed cultural resources worthy of preservation. (AP) - A bank, a farm and a fallout shelter are among eight Tennessee sites recently added to the National Register of Historic Places. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. ![]()
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