Montevallo Road: Difference between revisions
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* 4500: [[Shops on Montevallo]] | * 4500: [[Shops on Montevallo]] | ||
** [[Shangri-La]] | ** [[Shangri-La]] | ||
** former [[Bombay Connection]] | ** Subway | ||
** former [[Big B Drugs]] | ** Papa John's | ||
** former location of [[Bombay Connection]] | |||
** former location of [[Big B Drugs]] | |||
** [[Birmingham Public Library Eastwood Branch]] | ** [[Birmingham Public Library Eastwood Branch]] | ||
** [[Juarez Boxing]] (2013-) | |||
* former site of [[Starlite Drive-In]], [[Eastwood]] | * former site of [[Starlite Drive-In]], [[Eastwood]] | ||
* 4565: former site of [[Trinity Presbyterian Church (Eastwood)]] | * 4565: former site of [[Trinity Presbyterian Church (Eastwood)]] |
Revision as of 14:23, 12 October 2016
Montevallo Road is the name given to more than one pioneer-era road from settlements around Jones Valley toward the town of Montevallo, a trading center that became more important to the Birmingham District's coal and iron producers as the northernmost railroad connection to the naval works in Selma with the opening of the Alabama & Tennessee River Railroad in 1853.
Parts of Montevallo Road were also on the Nashville to Montgomery Road, which intersected Georgia Road at Red Gap near the Irondale Furnace.
The section of Montevallo Road originating at Irondale still bears the name from an eastern terminus at 16th Street, through the Eastwood section of Birmingham, through Crestline Heights in northern Mountain Brook, past the southern edge of the Country Club of Birmingham through the center of Mountain Brook Village to the western edge of Mountain Brook where it becomes Hollywood Boulevard at the Birmingham city limits, just prior to crossing Highway 280.
The Montevallo Road originating at the town of Elyton ran due south toward Oxmoor Road, and still bears the name for a section between Dennison Avenue and Shannon-Oxmoor Road, where it joins the road from Irondale and follows Little Shades Creek toward Brock's Gap.
Another section picks up as part of Alabama Highway 119 at U. S. Highway 31 in Alabaster and continues south. A third section exists, again as part of Alabama Highway 119, in Leeds from Ashville Road (just off Parkway Drive) southwest to where it becomes Eastern Valley Road.
Notable locations
Jefferson County
- 1900: Thomas Rowan residence
- 2401: former location of The Book-Keepers (1956)
- 2402: former location of Feinefield & Green Inc. (1956)
- 2403: former location of the Heirloom Shop
- 2404: former location of Juanita Reid Casuals (1956)
- 2405: former location of Harle Furniture Company (1956)
- 2407: former location of McKay Flower Shop (1956-)
- 2411: former location of The Lingerie Shoppe (1956-)
- 2421: former location of Lewis Chocolate Shop (1956)
- 2419: former location of Caro-Lena Shoppe (1956)
- 3225: former site of Knesseth Israel Congregation
- 3631: Mountain Brook Baptist Church
- 4151: Beaumont House, the "oldest house in Shades Valley" and listed in the Alabama Register of Heritage and Landmarks
- 4445: McElwain Baptist Church and McElwain Christian Academy
- 4447: McElwain Elementary School
- 4500: Shops on Montevallo
- Shangri-La
- Subway
- Papa John's
- former location of Bombay Connection
- former location of Big B Drugs
- Birmingham Public Library Eastwood Branch
- Juarez Boxing (2013-)
- former site of Starlite Drive-In, Eastwood
- 4565: former site of Trinity Presbyterian Church (Eastwood)