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* 100: Beginning of [[1st Avenue North viaduct]] | * 100: Beginning of [[1st Avenue North viaduct]] | ||
* 300: Termination of [[3rd Avenue North]] | * 300: Termination of [[3rd Avenue North]] | ||
* 500: former location of [[Birmingham Terminal Station]] | * 500: former location of [[Gus Jebeles (shopkeeper)|Gus Jebeles]]'s shop and [[Birmingham Terminal Station]] | ||
* 800: [[8th Avenue North]], former route of [[U. S. Highway 31]] | * 800: [[8th Avenue North]], former route of [[U. S. Highway 31]] | ||
* 900: [[I-59]]/[[I-20|20]] interchange | * 900: [[I-59]]/[[I-20|20]] interchange | ||
Revision as of 23:55, 3 November 2010
Carraway Boulevard (also known as 26th Street North) is the on-grade section of U. S. Highway 31 running through the north side of downtown Birmingham. A small section of the street also runs on the surface beneath the elevated Elton B. Stephens Expressway south of the western terminus of U. S. Highway 280 at I-59/I-20/20.
Carraway Boulevard is named for the Carraway Medical Center which dominates the streetscape in Norwood. The highway becames the "Decatur Highway" as it crosses the Norfolk Southern Railroad near North Birmingham Park. The railroad turns south and parallels Carraway Boulevard to the former site of the Birmingham Terminal Station, which occupied two blocks of 26th Street centered on 5th Avenue North.
Notable locations
For an alphabetical list of locations, see the Carraway Boulevard category.
- 000: former location of the 26th Street viaduct, which once sheltered Ingalls Iron Works.
- 100: Beginning of 1st Avenue North viaduct
- 300: Termination of 3rd Avenue North
- 500: former location of Gus Jebeles's shop and Birmingham Terminal Station
- 800: 8th Avenue North, former route of U. S. Highway 31
- 900: I-59/20 interchange
- 920: former location of Salvatore's & Omar's Drive-In
- 1000: Richard Arrington Jr Boulevard North
- 1212: former location of Colonial Stores (1957 - ) and Bruno's grocery store (1967 - )
- 1300: Norwood Park, Kirby Middle School
- 1500: Norwood Clinic
- 1600: Carraway Hospital
- 2300: Bridge over Village Creek
- 3103: former location of Catfish King
- 3200: Etheridge Brothers Barber & Style No. 3
- 3300: Olivet Monumental Baptist Church
- 3500: North Birmingham Elementary School