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=Welcome to the '''BhamWiki'''=
[[File:Quinlan Castle banner.jpg|thumb|center|800px|<small><div align="right">''[[Quinlan Castle]]. Photographed December 2021''</div></small>]]
The BhamWiki, part of the [[Bhamwiki:Project to Document the Birmingham District|Project to Document the Birmingham District]], aims to become the foremost resource and guide for anyone curious about Birmingham and the region around it. Accuracy, objectivity, accessibility, and comprehensiveness are our goals. We also hope that entertainment is a plentiful by-product.
=Welcome to '''Bhamwiki'''=
Bhamwiki, launched in [[2006]], is an ever-growing encyclopedic resource for anyone curious about [[Birmingham|Birmingham, Alabama]] and the [[Birmingham area|region around it]]. We [[Bhamwiki:Philosophy|aim for accuracy, objectivity, and accessibility]] as we work steadily to [[Bhamwiki:Policy#Content|expand our coverage]].


==Status==
Bhamwiki has {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} individual entries to explore. There are several ways to navigate the site. Click on any blue link to read an article about that topic. Try perusing some of our [[Bhamwiki:Featured articles|featured articles]], or our [[:Special:Newpages|newest entries]]. Look at what happened [[{{LOCALMONTHNAME}} {{LOCALDAY}}|on this date in Birmingham's history]]. Take a chance by clicking on "[[Special:Random|Random page]]" to the left. If you know what you're looking for, try using the search box. Or you can even start at [[:Category:Root|the top]] and work your way in from there. Be aware that the information on Bhamwiki is contributed by its users, and [[Bhamwiki:General disclaimer|no guarantee can be made about its accuracy or fitness for any purpose]]. Our policy is for contributors to cite sources for all information contributed. The reader is advised to verify our content with those original sources.
The BhamWiki is still in the "alpha testing" phase. We'd still love to start bringing enthusiastic contributors on board. If you are interested, take a look at the [[Bhamwiki:User agreement]] and shoot us an email to get a username and password.


BhamWiki has been running since March 15, [[2006]] and currently contains approximately 360 articles.
If you wish to notify us of errors, or to make comments, or suggest an idea for a new article, check out our [[Bhamwiki:Suggestion box]]. If you would like to join the project as an editor, please review our [[Bhamwiki:User agreement]]. Note that all contributions are reviewed for adherence to our [[Bhamwiki:Policy|content policy]] and are subject to correction and expansion by other editors.


==In the News==
==[[Gallery of featured images|Featured images]]==
* [[Avondale Mills]] announces closing of its 6 Alabama plants, as well as plants in Georgia and South Carolina. Future of 160 year old company in doubt.
<gallery>
* [[Festival 18]] closes its doors, joining the [[List of former cinemas]].
File:Magic City 2023 cover.jpg|''[[Magic City (2023 book)|Magic City]]''
* The [[Birmingham Bowl]] is announced for December 23 at [[Legion Field]].
File:Jeanne Marrazzo.jpg|[[Jeanne Marrazzo]]
* [[Richard Scrushy]] is set to testify in his trial with [[Don Siegelman]].
File:Rosa Zinszer.jpg|[[Rosa Zinszer]]
* [[Do Dah Day]] attracts crowds to [[Highland Avenue]] and [[Caldwell Park|Caldwell]] and [[Rhodes Park]]s.
File:Charles Linn mausoleum.jpg|[[Charles Linn]] mausoleum
File:Phil Finch.jpg|[[Phil Finch]]
File:1960 Jacks stand.jpg|[[Jack's Hamburgers]]
File:Horace Ware.jpg|[[Horace Ware]]
File:1974-06-17 Time cover.jpg|[[J. Mason Davis]]
File:1888 Hawes riot.jpg|[[Hawes riot]]
File:Double Oak Park sign.jpg|[[Double Oak Park]]
</gallery>


==Featured images==
==In the news==
{|
[[File:AHA Dig Hist Awd.png|right|thumb|120px|[[Bhamwiki:Awards|2016 AHA Digital History Award]]]]
| [[Image:Flag of Birmingham.png|thumb|none|300px|[[Flag of Birmingham]]]]
Today is {{LOCALDAYNAME}} [[{{LOCALMONTHNAME}} {{LOCALDAY}}]], [[{{LOCALYEAR}}]].
| [[Image:Heaviest corner.jpg|right|thumb|205px|The "[[Heaviest Corner on Earth]]"]]
 
|}
* [[May 17]]: Workers at [[Mercedes-Benz US International]] voted not to organize for representation by United Auto Workers.
* [[March 11]]: The [[City of Birmingham]] was awarded a $14.5 million grant to convert [[4th Avenue North]] to two-way traffic in the [[City Center]].
* [[February 24]]: The [[Black Elks Lodge]] at 800 [[12th Street North]] burned down.
* [[February 2]]: WWE Friday Night SmackDown was held at [[Legacy Arena]].


==Did you know?==
<br><br>
* ...that short-lived magazine ''[[I Cover the War]]'' interviewed pop band [[Primitons|The Primitons]] in their debut issue?
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* ...that [[Hazel the Mummy]], star attraction at the [[Bessemer Hall of History]] has since been cremated?
* ...that [[Birmingham]] native [[David F. Friedman]] produced dozens of exploitation films, including ''Blood Feast''?
* ...that [[Kelly Ingram Park|West Park]] was renamed "Kelly Ingram Park" for WWI hero [[Osmond Kelly Ingram]]?
* ...that [[Terrell Owens]]' [[Amani Raha]] bar is named for the Swahili words for "peace" and "happiness"?
* ...that downtown's [[Joy Young Restaurant]] began serving Chinese food in Birmingham in 1919?
* ...that Arnold Schwarzenegger earned a Golden Globe for the 1976 film ''[[Stay Hungry]]''?


==New articles==
==[[Special:Recentchanges|New articles]]==
{| cellpadding="2" style="width:670px"
{|-
| [[Tragic City Rollers]]
| valign="top" |
| [[AmSouth Center]]
* [[‎Acton Memorial Cemetery]]
| [[1873 cholera epidemic|Cholera epidemic]]
* [[‎‎280 Station]]
| [[BE&K]]
* [[‎‎K & J's Elegant Pastries]]
| [[Satchel Paige]]
* [[National Carbon Capture Center]]
|-
* [[Documerica]]
| ''[[Birmingham Post-Herald|Post-Herald]]''
* [[‎J. Frank White]]
| [[Larry DeLucas]]
* [[2023 ZF Chassis Systems strike]]
| [[Sun Ra]]
* [[‎BTNB Ensley branch]]
| [[205 Flava]]
* [[1909 Alabama State Fair]]
| [[Cahaba shiner]]
* [[Damien Harris]]
|-
* [[Gus Stollenwerck]]
| [[Lonnie Holley]]
| valign="top" |
| [[Oak Mountain]]
* [[‎Red, White and Blue(grass)]]
| [[Renaissance Plaza]]
* [[‎Hollis Museum of Popular Culture]]
| [[Justin Brown]]
* [[Buddy Vines Camp]]
| [[Mardi Gras]]
* [[‎Baptist Hospital Nurses Home]]
|-
* [[M. Paul Phillips]]
| [[Woodlawn High School|Woodlawn H.S.]]
* [[‎Joseph Gayles Jr]]
| [[Brookwood Village]]
* [[‎Rising Star Baptist Church]]
| [[Sloss Furnace Company|Sloss Furnace Co.]]
* [[Western Area YMCA]]
| [[Howard Cruse]]
* [[‎Act of Alabama 2016-18]]
| [[Aldridge Gardens]]
* [[Yellowhammer Creative]]
|-
* [[Richebourg McWilliams]]
| [[Wallace Rayfield]]
| valign="top" |
| [[Taylor Hicks]]
* [[‎Ossie Ware Mitchell]]
| [[Estrada]]
* [[1943]]
| [[Glenn Messer]]
* [[‎WJLX-AM]]
| [[Letter from Birmingham Jail|Letter from B'ham Jail]]
* [[‎Julia Neely Finch]]
|-
* [[‎Trinity Lutheran Church]]
| [[Bessemer Airport]]
* [[Southtown Senior]]
| [[Oak Grove Mine]]
* [[New South Center]]
| [[Mel Allen]]
* [[William Fairley]]
| [[Birmingham Black Barons|Black Barons]]
* [[Summit School]]
| [[Richard Scrushy]]
* [[Kenneth Nail]]
|-
* [[‎‎‎Artists on the Bluff]]
| [[Alan Ogg]]
| [[Brown Marx Building]]
| [[Drive-By Truckers]]
| [[WBMG 42]]
| [[Heather Whitestone]]
|}
|}


==Featured lists==
==[[Bhamwiki:Did you know?|Did you know?]]==
* [[List of intersate accidents caused by dropped steel]]
* ...that the [[1927]] [[Florentine Building]] was [[Henry Upson Sims]]' love letter to his art teacher, [[Hannah Elliott]]?
* [[List of Birmingham homicides in 2006]]
* ...that George Washington's surveying tools are held by a [[Karl C. Harrison Museum of George Washington|museum]] in [[Columbiana]]?
* [[List of songs about Birmingham]]
* ...that Birmingham's [[Our Lady of Fatima Catholic School]] was originally built with funds donated by Saint Katherine Drexel?
* [[List of Birmingham neighborhoods]]
* ...that the owners of [[Rocco & Cheater's Speed Shop]] used their real names?
* [[List of Birmingham's sister cities]]
* [[List of baseball players born in Birmingham]]
* [[List of furnaces in the Birmingham District]]


==Browse by category==
==[[Bhamwiki:Milestones|Status]]==
Bhamwiki has been running since [[March 15]], [[2006]]. The project currently has {{NUMBEROFUSERS}} registered user accounts and contains approximately {{NUMBEROFARTICLES}} articles. See [[Bhamwiki:Milestones]] for more information on the growth of the site. You can also join us on [http://facebook.com/Bhamwiki facebook] or follow along on [http://twitter.com/bhamwiki twitter] or [https://www.instagram.com/bhamwiki/?hl=en instagram].
 
==Major categories==
{| style="width:625px"
{| style="width:625px"
| [[:Category:Architecture|Architecture]]
| [[:Category:Art|Art]]
| [[:Category:Art|Art]]
| [[:Category:Buildings|Buildings]]
| [[:Category:Business|Business]]
| [[:Category:Business|Business]]
| [[:Category:Events|Events]]
| [[:Category:Events|Events]]
| [[:Category:Religion|Religion]]
| [[:Category:Religion|Religion]]
| [[:Category:Tourism|Tourism]]
| [[:Category:History|History]]
|-  
|-  
| [[:Category:Industry|Industry]]
| [[:Category:Industry|Industry]]
| [[:Category:Music|Music]]
| [[:Category:Music|Music]]
| [[:Category:Neighborhoods|Neighborhoods]]
| [[:Category:People|People]]
| [[:Category:People|People]]
| [[:Category:Recreation|Recreation]]
| [[:Category:Media|Media]]
| [[:Category:Media|Media]]
| [[:Category:Culture|Culture]]
| [[:Category:Neighborhoods|Neighborhoods]]
|}
|}


==See also==
::<small><center>'''''Bhamwiki''' is based on the [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] model and runs on [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] software. <br> All content is contributed by users. See [[Bhamwiki:General disclaimer]]. <br>All content, unless noted otherwise, is published under a [http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/ Creative Commons license], see [[Bhamwiki:Copyrights]].''</center></small>
* [[Bhamwiki:Philosophy]]
* [[Bhamwiki:Policy]]
* [[Bhamwiki:General disclaimer]]
* [[Bhamwiki:Copyrights]]
* [[Bhamwiki:References]]
 
 
::<small>''The '''BhamWiki''' is based on the [http://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] model and runs on [http://www.mediawiki.org/ MediaWiki] software.''</small>


[[Category:Root|*]]
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Latest revision as of 15:56, 17 May 2024

Quinlan Castle. Photographed December 2021

Welcome to Bhamwiki

Bhamwiki, launched in 2006, is an ever-growing encyclopedic resource for anyone curious about Birmingham, Alabama and the region around it. We aim for accuracy, objectivity, and accessibility as we work steadily to expand our coverage.

Bhamwiki has 17,782 individual entries to explore. There are several ways to navigate the site. Click on any blue link to read an article about that topic. Try perusing some of our featured articles, or our newest entries. Look at what happened on this date in Birmingham's history. Take a chance by clicking on "Random page" to the left. If you know what you're looking for, try using the search box. Or you can even start at the top and work your way in from there. Be aware that the information on Bhamwiki is contributed by its users, and no guarantee can be made about its accuracy or fitness for any purpose. Our policy is for contributors to cite sources for all information contributed. The reader is advised to verify our content with those original sources.

If you wish to notify us of errors, or to make comments, or suggest an idea for a new article, check out our Bhamwiki:Suggestion box. If you would like to join the project as an editor, please review our Bhamwiki:User agreement. Note that all contributions are reviewed for adherence to our content policy and are subject to correction and expansion by other editors.

Featured images

In the news

Today is Sunday June 2, 2024.



New articles

Did you know?

Status

Bhamwiki has been running since March 15, 2006. The project currently has 573 registered user accounts and contains approximately 17,782 articles. See Bhamwiki:Milestones for more information on the growth of the site. You can also join us on facebook or follow along on twitter or instagram.

Major categories

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Bhamwiki is based on the Wikipedia model and runs on MediaWiki software.
All content is contributed by users. See Bhamwiki:General disclaimer.
All content, unless noted otherwise, is published under a Creative Commons license, see Bhamwiki:Copyrights.