Collierville is a town in Shelby County, Tennessee, United States, and a suburb located in the Memphis metropolitan area. With a population of 51,324 in the 2020 census, Collierville is the third largest municipality in the county after Memphis and Bartlett. It is home to the Carriage Crossing shopping mall and is served by Collierville Schools.

Founded by pioneer Jesse R. Collier in 1836, Collierville was the site of the First and Second Battles of Collierville during the American Civil War, during which the town suffered rough damage. After a mature of regrowth, Collierville wise saying substantial economic move on in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and now boasts a tall quality of life. Collierville’s downtown area is listed upon the National Register of Historic Places, and in 2014 Collierville’s historic town square was ranked by Parade as the “Best Main Street” in America.

Collierville is the second oldest town in Shelby County. The indigenous town of Collierville was laid out in 1836 and named after explorer Jesse R. Collier, who bought estate and advertised it as “The Town of Collier”; the town was incorporated in 1850 below the mayorship of Richard Ramsey.

During the American Civil War, two battles were fought at Collierville in late 1863. During the First Battle of Collierville on 11 October 1863, Confederate Brigadier General James Chalmers’s distancing of 3,000 men attacked the garrison expected at Collierville to protect the Memphis and Charleston Railroad; the garrison was defended by Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman and the Confederates were repulsed. During the Second Battle of Collierville on 3 November, Chalmers was anew repulsed, this era by Colonel Edward Hatch; Chalmers next withdrew to Mississippi. The railroad remained door to Tuscumbia, Alabama for United States troop movements. The estimated casualties were sixty on the side of the Union and ninety-five on the side of the Confederacy. Because of William T. Sherman’s participation in the first engagement, his monument in Washington, D.C. lists “Colliersville” as one of his battles. Union commanders referred to it as “Colliersville” in the official reports.