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** 111: [[Buffalo Rock Company]] headquarters
** 111: [[Buffalo Rock Company]] headquarters
** 124: former location of [[J. T. Suduth & Co.]] (1969)
** 124: former location of [[J. T. Suduth & Co.]] (1969)
* [[Oxmoor Boulevard]]/[[Barber Court]] intersection
 
* [[Oxmoor Boulevard]]/[[Barber Court]] intersect
** 140C: former location of [[Computerland]] (1990)
** 140C: former location of [[Computerland]] (1990)
** 160: [[Shades Valley Community Church]] (formerly [[Oxmoor Ice Lodge]]/Alpine Ice Arena)
** 160: [[Shades Valley Community Church]] (formerly [[Oxmoor Ice Lodge]]/Alpine Ice Arena)
** 162: [[Bogue's]] (formerly [[Devinci's Pizza]], [[Florida Grille]] and [[Sirena's Latino & Seafood Grill]])
** 165: [[Pizzeria GM]] (addressed as 600 Oak Grove Road)
** 186: [[186 Building]]
 
** 195: [[Comfort Inn Oxmoor Hotel]]
* [[Oak Grove Road]] intersects (south only)
** 220: [[Jim 'N Nick's Bar-B-Q]]
** north side:
** 260: [[America's Best Value Inn & Suites]] (formerly [[Admiral Benbow Inn]], [[Rodeway Inn]])
*** 162: [[The Little London]] (2020-), former location of [[Devinci's Pizza]], [[Florida Grille]], [[Sirena's Latino & Seafood Grill]], [[Bogue's]], [[Homewood Diner]] (-2018), [[Oxmoor Bar & Grill]] (June-August 2018)
** 290: [[Burger King]]
*** 174: [[Seeds Coffee]]
** 302: [[Gus's Hot Dogs (Homewood)]]
*** 184: [[Oxmoor Automotive]]
** 303: former location of [[Peg-Leg's]] seafood restaurant (1987)
*** 186: [[186 Building]]
** 320: former location of [[Reynolds Pharmacy]]
*** 190: [[Hatfield Auto Parts & Service]]
* [[Oxmoor Boulevard]] intersection
*** 208: former location of [[Texaco]] gas station
*** 260: former location of [[Admiral Benbow Inn]], [[Rodeway Inn]], [[America's Best Value Inn & Suites]]
** south side:
*** 169: [[Weygand Surveyors]]
*** 173: [[Simply Ponds & Gardens]]
*** 187: [[Nexus Fitness]]
*** 195: [[EconoLodge Homewood]], former location of [[Comfort Inn Oxmoor Hotel]]
*** 197: [[Chevron]] gas station
 
* [[Oxmoor Boulevard]] merges from west
* [[Interstate 65]] interchange
* [[Interstate 65]] interchange
** [[Green Springs Shopping Center]]
** north side:
* [[Green Springs Highway]] intersection
*** [[Green Springs Shopping Center]]
* [[Columbiana Road]] intersection (road terminus; traffic continues east on [[Palisades Boulevard]])
*** 290: [[Burger King]]
* 400-600 blocks: single-family homes.
*** 298: [[Shark's Fish & Chicken]] (addressed as 254 Green Springs Highway)
* [[Palisades Drive]] intersection (one way eastbound access along Oxmoor)
** south side:
*** 275: [[Travel Inn]]
*** 295: [[Mobil]] gas station (addressed as 400 Green Springs Highway)
 
* [[Green Springs Highway]] intersects
** north side:
*** 300–320: retail strip
**** 300: [[Advance America]] cash advance (2008–)
**** 304: [[Payless ShoeSource]] (2008–)
**** 306: [[American Deli]] (2016–), former location of [[Gus's Hot Dogs (Homewood)]]
**** 308: [[Maya Restaurante Mexicano]] (2018–), former location of [[Los Compadres]] (1990s–2016)
**** 320: former location of [[Reynolds Pharmacy]], [[SharpCarpet]] flooring (2015–)
** south side:
*** 301: [[Los Valedores]] taco truck
*** 303: former location of [[Peg-Leg's]] seafood restaurant (1987)
*** 307–309:
**** 307: [[Logo Express]]
**** 309: [[MetroPCS]]
*** 321: [[Nina's Cleaners]]
 
* [[Columbiana Road]] intersects
** road continues east as [[Palisades Boulevard]]
** Oxmoor Road resumes at cul-de-sac
 
* [[Theda Street]] intersects (south only)
* [[Palisades Drive]] intersects (one way eastbound access along Oxmoor)


===[[Edgewood Business District]]===
===[[Edgewood Business District]]===

Revision as of 12:32, 9 September 2021

Oxmoor Road is an approximately three and three-quarters mile long street running mostly roughly northeast-southwest through Homewood between Independence Drive (U.S. Highway 31) and West Oxmoor Road. It is part of a road dating back to at least the 1860s which was previously known as Oxmoor-Irondale Road and connected the Cahaba Iron Works in Irondale with Oxmoor Furnace in Oxmoor, hence the road's name.

History

In the 1860s, Oxmoor-Irondale Road was used to haul pig iron from both Irondale and Oxmoor south to Selma. The road was also important for early settlers of Shades Valley as it was easier to use it to access the two furnace's commisary stores for supplies than to cross Red Mountain to Elyton, or later Birmingham, for them. It was along this road that the settlements that would eventually become Homewood took shape. At some point in the first half of the 20th century, the road became known simply as Oxmoor Road.

Mining camps along Oxmoor Road were used as filming locations for the 1925 silent feature Coming Through.

Most of Oxmoor Road was resurfaced in 1949.

During the late 20th century, two bypasses were created along Oxmoor Road. First, during the 1970s, Oxmoor Boulevard was built north of Oxmoor Road to provide light industry that appeared on West Oxmoor Road a multi-lane route to I-65 and avoid a residential area. Oxmoor Road intersects both ends of Oxmoor Boulevard. Second, during the late 1980s, Palisades Boulevard and Palisades Drive routed traffic through the Palisades shopping center to Green Springs Highway. In this case, direct access into the residential section along Oxmoor was cut off as Oxmoor feeds directly into the two Palisades roads.

Road description

Oxmoor Road is one of the primary east-west roads through Homewood, although the majority of it, except for some left turn lanes at select intersections, is two-lane road. Oxmoor is a five-lane road between Columbiana Road and east end of Oxmoor Boulevard (near Green Springs Highway and Interstate 65) and between the west end of Oxmoor Boulevard and West Oxmoor Road. At the intersection with the west end of Oxmoor Boulevard, Oxmoor Road makes a 90-degree turn to the south. It then forms a fork with West Oxmoor Road and becomes West Oxmoor for those traveling south. The eastern end of Oxmoor Road becomes Hollywood Boulevard.

Just south of the Palisades, Oxmoor Road is on the Birmingham-Homewood border. Between Oxmoor Boulevard and West Oxmoor Road, portions of Oxmoor Road are fully in Birmingham while others are again along the Birmingham-Homewood border.

Notable locations

For an alphabetical list of locations, see the Oxmoor Road category.

Edgewood Business District

Road continues

References

  • Summe, Sheryl Spradling. (2001). Homewood: The Life of a City. Homewood, AL: Friends of the Homewood Public Library.
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