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==Notable addresses== | ==Notable addresses== | ||
===Birmingham=== | ===Birmingham=== | ||
* 5300: [[Healing Spring Baptist Church]] | * [[Messer Airport Highway]] | ||
* : parking lot, former location of [[Woodlawn Elementary School]] (1892-1961) | ** 5300: [[Healing Spring Baptist Church]] | ||
* 6910: vacant, former location of [[Gate City Elementary School]] (1955-2011) | ** 5312: [[Willow Wood Park]], former location of [[Wood Plantation]] | ||
* 7407: [[Holy Rosary Catholic Church]] | ** parking lot, former location of [[Woodlawn Elementary School]] (1892-1961) | ||
* 7524: [[Birmingham Health Care]] | ** 5509: [[Brandon Car Center]] | ||
** [[East Birmingham Church of God in Christ]] | |||
* [[1st Avenue North]] intersects | |||
* [[1st Avenue South]] | |||
** 6200 block: [[Old Ship A.M.E. Zion Church]] | |||
** 6200 block: [[Eagles Nest Church of God in Christ]] | |||
** 6517: [[Allright Tool Company]] | |||
** 6601: [[Glorious Light Church]] | |||
** 6910: vacant, former location of [[Gate City Elementary School]] (1955-2011) | |||
** 7407: [[Holy Rosary Catholic Church]] | |||
** 7429: [[Miller Wire Works]] | |||
* [[Interlaken Avenue]] intersects (north only) | |||
** [[Gate City Housing Project]] | |||
** 7517: [[Aubrey Bushelon Funeral Directing & Cremation Services]] | |||
** 7524: [[Birmingham Health Care]] | |||
** 7559: [[Five Star Convenience Store]] | |||
** 7633: [[Vacca Discount Drugs]] | |||
* [[Red Gap]] | |||
* [[Oporto-Madrid Boulevard]] crosses above | |||
===Irondale=== | ===Irondale=== | ||
* 1401: [[Jim House & Associates]] | |||
* 1500: [[Creative Concepts]] | * 1500: [[Creative Concepts]] | ||
[[Category:Georgia Road|*]] | [[Category:Georgia Road|*]] | ||
Revision as of 16:01, 27 January 2016
Georgia Road is a long road in eastern Birmingham, a remnant of an old road that extended through the Mississippi Territory from Georgia along the floor of Jones Valley.
Early settlers along Georgia Road included Obadiah and Edmund Wood at what became Woodlawn, Abner Killough at the "Big Spring" in present-day Avondale, Warren and Sam Truss at Trussville, Daniel Huffman at Huffman, Burrell Bass at Roebuck, and Richard B. Walker and William F. Nabers, whose lands included the area that would become the city of Birmingham. The road also traversed the grant given to William Ely on which Elyton was laid out in 1820. It was renamed "Cotton Avenue" within the town limits.
Georgia Road connected to Montevallo Road (also called Bear Meat Cabin Road or the Nashville to Montgomery Road) at Red Gap near what became Gate City. It crossed the Huntsville Road, Tuscaloosa Road and Arkadelphia Road at Elyton.
U.S. Highway 78 (Atlanta Highway) follows roughly the route of Georgia Road east of Birmingham.
Present route
The present Georgia Road runs from Messer Airport Highway eastward into the heart of Woodlawn, past Willow Wood park to 1st Avenue North.
The road reappears as it splits off from 1st Avenue South just before 57th Street South in Woodlawn, continuing eastward below I-20, through Gate City, below Oporto-Madrid Boulevard and on into Irondale where it is renamed 2nd Avenue North as it crosses 16th Street North.
Notable addresses
Birmingham
- Messer Airport Highway
- 5300: Healing Spring Baptist Church
- 5312: Willow Wood Park, former location of Wood Plantation
- parking lot, former location of Woodlawn Elementary School (1892-1961)
- 5509: Brandon Car Center
- East Birmingham Church of God in Christ
- 1st Avenue North intersects
- 1st Avenue South
- 6200 block: Old Ship A.M.E. Zion Church
- 6200 block: Eagles Nest Church of God in Christ
- 6517: Allright Tool Company
- 6601: Glorious Light Church
- 6910: vacant, former location of Gate City Elementary School (1955-2011)
- 7407: Holy Rosary Catholic Church
- 7429: Miller Wire Works
- Interlaken Avenue intersects (north only)
- Red Gap
- Oporto-Madrid Boulevard crosses above
Irondale
- 1401: Jim House & Associates
- 1500: Creative Concepts