Avondale Land Company

The Avondale Land Company was a private company that financed the development of the suburb of Avondale, which was incorporated as the City of Avondale in 1889 and annexed into Birmingham in 1910. The new town, incorporated in 1889, was named after the Cincinnati suburb of Avondale, which impressed the members of the company who had travelled there to seek backing for their development.

The company was incorporated on March 25, 1884 by Benjamin F. Roden, John B. Roden, and William Morris, with an initial capital of $150,000. They purchased the land from Peyton King, who specified that the 40 rugged acres surrounding the famed Avondale spring remain dedicated as a public park. The company carried out improvements to the park property, and made it the southern anchor of the new town's business district, which followed the spring's outlet along "Spring Street" to Valley Creek. The company established a mule-drawn streetcar line along 1st Avenue North to a depot at the north end of Spring Street.

Robert Pearson and Henry DeBardeleben were brought on as partners in June 1884. The company anticipated beginning the sale of lots late that summer.