Georgia Road: Difference between revisions

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Georgia Road is an east-west road in eastern Birmingham, a remnant of an old road that extended through the Mississippi Territory from Georgia along the length of 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.

U.S. Highway 78 (Atlanta Highway) follows roughly the route of Georgia Road east of Birmingham.

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.

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 ** 6910: vacant, former location of [[Gate City Elementary School]] (1955-2011)
 ** 7407: [[Holy Rosary Catholic Church]] (1889-)
-** 7429: [[Miller Wire Works]]
+** 7429: [[Miller Wire Works]] (1949-)
 * [[Interlaken Avenue]] intersects (north only)
 ** [[Marks Village]] public housing project (1952-)