Montevallo Road
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.
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Notable locations
Homewood
- 1900: Thomas Rowan residence
- U.S. Highway 280 interchange
Mountain Brook
- U.S. Highway 280 interchange
- 2300: former location of Mac Clary Construction Co. (2007)
- 2305: Shades Valley Presbyterian Church
- 2350: Brookhill Condominiums
- Cahaba Road intersection (Mountain Brook Village)
- 2401: Rex Harris Fine Jewelry (2007–), former location of The Book-Keepers (1956)
- 2402: Table Matters (2007–), former location of Feinefield & Green Inc. (1956)
- 2403: The Lingerie Shoppe (2007–), former location of the Heirloom Shop
- 2404: Christine's, former location of Juanita Reid Casuals (1956)
- 2405: B Kids, former location of Harle Furniture Company (1956), Vanity (2007)
- 2407: Mountain Brook Flower Shop (2007), former location of McKay Flower Shop (1956-)
- 2409: former location of Suite Dreams (2007)
- 2411: OLI.O, former location of The Lingerie Shoppe (1956-)
- 2415: Marella (2007–), former location of Hotel Brazil/Strange Fruit (1990s)
- 2417: former location of Carousel children's wear (2007)
- 2418: Another Broken Egg Cafe, former location of King's House Antiques (2007)
- 2419: former location of Caro-Lena Shoppe (1956)
- 2421: former location of Lewis Chocolate Shop (1956), Etc... jewelry (1983–2010s)
- Culver Road intersection
- Overhill Road intersection
- Canterbury Road intersection (south only)
- 3207: St Peter's Anglican Church, former location of Mountain Brook Community Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 3225: former location of Knesseth Israel Congregation
- Pine Crest Road intersection (south only)
- Fairway Drive intersection (north only)
- Norman Drive intersection (south only)
- Matthews Road intersection (north only)
- Overbrook Road intersection (south only)
- Richmar Drive intersection (south only)
- Montevallo Lane intersection (south only)
- Montevallo Terrace intersection (south only)
- Church Street (west) / Montrose Road (east) intersection
- Cherry Street intersection (north only)
- Montcrest Drive intersection (north only)
- Stonehurst Green intersection (north only)
- Montevallo Park Place intersection (north only)
- Glencoe Drive intersection (south only)
- Shades Creek crossing
- Crestview Drive intersection (north only)
- Greenbriar Lane intersection (north only)
Birmingham
Crestline neighborhood
- Glenview Drive intersects (south only)
- 4151: Beaumont House, the "oldest house in Shades Valley" and listed in the Alabama Register of Heritage and Landmarks
- Glenbrook Drive intersects (south only)
- Euclid Avenue (west) / Leach Drive (east) intersection
- Sims Avenue intersects (west only)
- Monarch Avenue intersects
- Dunston Avenue intersects
- Hoadley Drive intersects (west only)
- Larry Lane intersects (east only)
- 4401–4449: Hope Community Church (2020–), formerly McElwain Baptist Church (built 1957–1967) and McElwain Christian Academy
- 4424–4446: Legacy at Montevallo townhomes (built 2021)
- 4424: former location of residence
- 4428: former location of residence
- 4430–4438: former location of parking lot
- 4440: former location of McElwain Baptist Church (built 1929, used as "deaf chapel" 1982–)
- 4444–4446: former location of McElwain Baptist Church education building (built 1952)
- Gladstone Avenue intersection (west only)
- 4447: Preschool Partners, former location of McElwain Elementary School (1901-2008)
- Swallow Lane intersection (east only)
- Shades Creek tributary crossing
- 4476: Winn-Dixie
- Grace Baker Road intersection (west only)
- 4496: Havoline Xpress Lube
- 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-)
- Maryland Avenue intersection (east only)
- former site of Starlite Drive-In, Eastwood
- 4565: The Vine Birmingham, former location of Trinity Presbyterian Church (1971-2014), The Joyful News Church (2019)
- Oporto Madrid Boulevard (north) / Redwood Street (south) intersection
- 4600: Express Oil Change/Tire Engineers
- 4616: Dunbar Sales Co.
- Rosewood Street intersection (south only)
- 4628: Produce Connection
- Oporto Way intersection (north only)
- Alpine Street intersection (south only)
Eastwood neighborhood
- Bush Street intersection (south only)
- 4739: Community of Christ, former location of Wesleyan Methodist Church, Springdale Wesleyan Church (1971)
- Chestnut Street intersection
- 4800: former location of Hope Lutheran Church (closed c. 2020)
- Daly Street intersection (south only)
- Elder Street intersection
- Montclair Road intersection
- Crestwood Boulevard (U.S. Highway 78) intersection
- I-20 interchange (I-20 Exit 132)
Irondale
- I-20 interchange (I-20 Exit 132)
- Monticello Street (west) / Monticello Road (east) intersection
- McCoy Street intersection (west only)
- Marion Drive intersection (south only)
- Lawrence Street intersection (west only)
- Montevallo Park Road (north) / Vetavia Street (south) intersection
- 15th Street South Irondale intersection (south only)
- road terminates into 16th Street South Irondale
