The Adams Avenue Historic District in Memphis, Tennessee is a 9 acres (3.6 ha) historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980 and was where Nathan Bedford Forrest once operated a giant slave market, said to be the South’s largest, that boasted “the best selected assortment of field hands, house servants, and mechanics … with fresh supplies of likely Young Negroes.” It contained six contributing buildings: Fire Engine House No. 1 * Shelby County Courthouse