Jackson Boulevard

This article is about the street in Tarrant. For the street in Mountain Brook, see Jackson Boulevard (Mountain Brook).

Jackson Boulevard is a major street running southwest to northeast through Tarrant, from Cedar Street near Vanderbilt Road, across East Lake Boulevard to Bethel Avenue (Tarrant Huffman Road).

The No. 22 Boyles-Tarrant City streetcar line followed Jackson Boulevard to Ford Avenue beginning on September 12, 1914.

Notable addresses

• boulevard begins at Spring Street (Tarrant)
  • 604: former location of Madame Gayle fortune teller (1942)
  • 612–630: Mustard Seed Faith Cathedral
• Cedar Street intersects
• Alabama Street intersects
• Mississippi Street intersects
  • former location of Alabama Airless Supply
• Park Avenue intersects
  • 1000: New Seed of Faith African Methodist Episcopal Church, formerly Miles Memorial African Methodist Episcopal Church (1997-2011), former location of Tarrant Church of the Nazarene (1983)
  • 1062: Rollins Drapery Services
• Hall Street (north) / Hanover Street (south) intersect
• Elm Avenue intersects
  • 1200: Church of God of Prophecy
• Thomason Avenue intersects
• Sloan Avenue intersects
• Wharton Avenue intersects
  • 1528: Tarrant City Hall (built 2020), former location of Food Giant
• East Lake Boulevard intersects
  • north side
    • 1600: Kessler's Pharmacy (1931-), formerly Strickland's Pharmacy (1924-1931)
    • 1610: Sixteen-Ten Building
    • 1612: vacant
    • 1628: Tarrant Public Library
  • south side:
    • 1601: vacant
    • 1609: former location of Bob's Discount Appliances, Joyce's Hair Salon (2011)
    • 1613: former location of Complete Printing Service, L & O Greek Specialties (2010-2011)
• Ford Avenue intersects
• Elizabeth Avenue intersects
• Bethel Avenue (Tarrant Huffman Road), street ends

References

• Songer, Ray (2014) Our Hometown Tarrant, AL USA. self-published/Lulu.com ISBN 9781312629509