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Main Street was part of the original stage coach route along [[Stouts Road]] through northern Jefferson County. The original path of the road split off on a loop following the currently-discontinuous [[King Road]] and [[Jamestown Manor Drive]]. There is documentation that a toll booth was located at the [[Price Plantation]] in the vicinity of the former [[Rogers Area Vocational Center]] of [[Gardendale High School]]. | Main Street was part of the original stage coach route along [[Stouts Road]] through northern Jefferson County. The original path of the road split off on a loop following the currently-discontinuous [[King Road]] and [[Jamestown Manor Drive]]. There is documentation that a toll booth was located at the [[Price Plantation]] in the vicinity of the former [[Rogers Area Vocational Center]] of [[Gardendale High School]]. | ||
Main Street was replaced as the primary north-south road through the city by the construction of the current [[Decatur Highway]] in the 1950s. | |||
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Revision as of 07:14, 23 July 2018
Main Street is a predominantly north-south road approximately 1.5 miles long in Gardendale.
History
Main Street was part of the original stage coach route along Stouts Road through northern Jefferson County. The original path of the road split off on a loop following the currently-discontinuous King Road and Jamestown Manor Drive. There is documentation that a toll booth was located at the Price Plantation in the vicinity of the former Rogers Area Vocational Center of Gardendale High School.
Main Street was replaced as the primary north-south road through the city by the construction of the current Decatur Highway in the 1950s.
Route
The south end of Main Street continues from the Gardendale city limits at the border between Gardendale and Fultondale. The road continues north, crosses Fieldstown Road, and continues until it dead-ends into Treasure Trail.
Notable locations
- For an alphabetical list of locations, see the Main Street (Gardendale) category.
- road continues from Stouts Road in Fultondale
- 650: Adorned Boutique (opened August 2017), formerly Steel City Ministries, Buettner Brothers Hardware Store
- 732: Gardendale Cleaners
- 733: Charter Communications
- 753: Alabama State College of Barber Styling, former location of Paula McCarty Photography
- 758: Baptist Health Center
- Gardendale Civic Complex
- 800: Gardendale High School, formerly Rogers Area Vocational Center
- 809: K & K Jewelers
- Mount Olive Road intersection
- 925: Gardendale Chamber of Commerce and Gardendale City Hall
- 940: Gardendale First Baptist Church (south campus)
- 945-961: Gardendale Plaza
- Fieldstown Road intersection
- Village Green Shopping Center
- 1014: Foodland
- 1036: Hibbett Sporting Goods
- 1105: Firestone tire and auto center
- 1110: North Jefferson News
- 1218: Our Place restaurant
- Veterans Memorial Park (Gardendale)
- 1328: Wilson Florist
- road ends at Treasure Trail road