New historic marker honors Tom Lee and his Klondike community — then and now
Johnny Williams, a descendant of Tom Lee, looks at a plaque honoring his ancestor outside Lee's former home in North Memphis on July 22. (Patrick Lantrip/The Daily Memphian)
The marker unveiled Wednesday is about the past but also the present push to restore and renovate the Klondike area where Lee lived out his life after he saved the lives of 32 people on the Mississippi River in 1925.
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