Carolina Avenue
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Carolina Avenue is an east-west avenue paralleling the Alabama Great Southern Railroad tracks through downtown Bessemer.
Notable addresses (west to east)
- 9th Street South Bessemer intersection
- 10th Street South Bessemer intersection (south only)
- road ends
- 12th Street South Bessemer intersection (south only)
- 13th Street South Bessemer intersection (south only)
- 14th Street South Bessemer (Alabama State Highway 150) intersection
- 1401: Exxon gas station
- A. B. & C. Railroad trestle crosses above
- 15th Street South Bessemer intersection
- 1515: Ray's Custom Cuts
- 16th Street South Bessemer intersection
- Short 18th Street South Bessemer intersection (south only)
- 1731: former location of A. & R. Thrift Store, The Vintage Station (2017)
- 18th Street South Bessemer intersection (north only)
- 1801: Church's fried chicken
- 1831: Renner Block (built 1907)
- 19th Street South Bessemer intersection (former location of "Spirit of the American Doughboy" statue (1922-)
- 1901: vacant, former location of Boackle's restaurant
- 1931: Paul F. Cole dental clinic
- 1933: former location of Added Touch Flowers
- 20th Street South Bessemer intersection
- 2001-2003: Romano Block (built c. 1889-1895, Ronald's Motorcycle Sales & Service, former location of Carolina Grocery
- 2005: commercial building (built c. 1944), former location of Harris Grill.
- 2007: commercial building (built c. 1945), former location of Star Confections, Phil & Ann's Game Room
- 2009-2011: former location of Blue Note Cafe; Green Upholstery; Masonic Lodge
- 2011: Alfred D. Green Upholstery, former location of Star Theatre, Dothan Lodge No. 112
- 2013: Garage building (built c. 1920) B & W Auto Repair, former location of Seegar Welding Co., Wall Machine Shop, People's Garage, former site of Bessemer Weekly printing press (burned 1898-1899)
- 2015: George Grocery Building (built c. 1910), former location of George Grocery, Silver Moon Cafe, former site of Marvel City Saloon (1894-)
- 2017: commercial building (built c. 1948), former location of Long's Cleaners
- 2023: Burgin-Little Block (built 1891), former location of Cross Cathedral
- 2029-2031: commercial building (built c. 1895), former location of Carolina Avenue Market, Guyton Printing Company, Hurd's Pharmacy
- 21st Street South Bessemer intersection (south only)
- 2101-2103: Robinson Block (built 1888), former location of R. & A. Robinson saloon and dry goods (1888-), H. Magill grocery & feed (1890s), Sapp & Hagler feed store, Southern Queen Hotel, Finocchio Grocery Co.
- 22nd Street South Bessemer intersection
- former site of Montezuma Hotel (built 1886, destroyed by fire 1899)
- 2217: MPG Casting Technologies, former location of Jones Foundry, Citation Corporation, Southern Ductile Casting Corp., Grede Foundries
- Carolina Terrace begins (south only)
- railroad crossing
- 25th Street South Bessemer intersection (south only)
- 2509: Brantley Chapel Cumberland Presbyterian Church
- Norfolk Southern Transmission Tower (built 1963)
- 2600: Norfolk-Southern Bessemer Depot
- access to Hard Elementary School
- 29th Street South Bessemer intersection (south only)
- 30th Street South Bessemer intersection (south only)
- 31st Street South Bessemer intersection (south only)
- 32nd Street South Bessemer intersection
References
- Nelson, Linda and Melanie Best (December 12, 1990) "Downtown Bessemer Historic District, Supplementary Listing Record" National Register of Historic Places. Listed July 15, 1992