Boyle's Gap
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Boyle's Gap is an opening in the ridge of Sand Mountain traversed by Five Mile Creek between Tarrant and Fultondale. It was named for Bartholomew Boyles, a construction engineer for the South & North Railroad who purchased 2,000 acres in the vicinity for a farmstead and eventually developed coal mines at Lewisburg served by the Mary Lee Railroad.
The South & North, later the Louisville & Nashville Railroad, used Boyle's Gap to approach Birmingham. CSX's Boyle's Yards are major railway switching yards on either side of the gap.