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There has been a road roughly following the current path of Green Springs Highway since the early 20th century.  By the 1910s, it had been upgraded from a dirt road, but was not yet paved.  <!-- The maps give a lot of options for what surface might have been used, so it's hard to say precisely what it was covered with. -->  At the time, the portion adjacent to [[Ward Park|Green Springs Park]] (now Ward Park) was known as '''2nd Place'''.  From historical maps<sup>[http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/counties/jefferson/jeffersonb.html]</sup>, paving appears to have taken place in the latter half of the 1920s.  The road was partially rerouted and improved to a divided highway by 1945.
There has been a road roughly following the current path of Green Springs Highway since the early 20th century.  By the 1910s, it had been upgraded from a dirt road, but was not yet paved.  <!-- The maps give a lot of options for what surface might have been used, so it's hard to say precisely what it was covered with. -->  At the time, the portion adjacent to [[Ward Park|Green Springs Park]] (now Ward Park) was known as '''2nd Place'''.  From historical maps<sup>[http://alabamamaps.ua.edu/historicalmaps/counties/jefferson/jeffersonb.html]</sup>, paving appears to have taken place in the latter half of the 1920s.  The road was partially rerouted and improved to a divided highway by 1945.


== Locations ==
== Notable locations ==
{{Alphabetical locations}}
{{Alphabetical locations}}


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*** 400: Mobil station
*** 400: Mobil station
*** 410: [[Paw Paw Patch]]
*** 410: [[Paw Paw Patch]]
*** [[Oak Grove Presbyterian Church Cemetery]]
*** 420: former location of [[Lovoy's Italian Restaurant]] ([[1964]]–[[2010]])
*** 420: former location of [[Lovoy's Italian Restaurant]] ([[1964]]–[[2010]])
**** [[The Village on Green Springs]]
**** [[The Village on Green Springs]]
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**** 437: GameStop, Papa Murphy's Take 'N Bake Pizza  
**** 437: GameStop, Papa Murphy's Take 'N Bake Pizza  
*** 471: [[Taipei 101]]
*** 471: [[Taipei 101]]
*** 475: [[Regions]] branch
*** 475: [[Regions]] branch (formerly First Alabama Bank)
*** 479: Purple Onion
*** 479: Purple Onion
* [[Carr Avenue]] intersection
* [[Carr Avenue]] intersection

Revision as of 11:12, 28 November 2012

Green Springs Highway is a multi-lane road and major north-south route continuing University Boulevard in Birmingham's Glen Iris neigborhood from the north to Columbiana Road in Homewood to the south. In Homewood, Green Springs supplanted Columbiana Road as the major north-south road in the area. For non-local traffic, Green Springs has been supplanted by Interstate 65, which runs just west of it.

The change to Green Springs Highway from University Boulevard begins around 16th Avenue South, just north of Ward Park. The road then runs south past the west side of the park, through Walker Gap in Red Mountain, and across Valley Avenue and Oxmoor Road. The highway ends as Green Springs at Lakeshore Drive/Lakeshore Parkway, continuing as Columbiana Road southward into Vestavia Hills. The entire highway is part of Alabama State Highway 149.

From approximately 1/3-mile north of Valley Avenue to Columbiana Road (north of Oxmoor Road), Green Springs Highway is where the Birmingham (east side) and Homewood (west side) city limits meet.

History

There has been a road roughly following the current path of Green Springs Highway since the early 20th century. By the 1910s, it had been upgraded from a dirt road, but was not yet paved. At the time, the portion adjacent to Green Springs Park (now Ward Park) was known as 2nd Place. From historical maps[1], paving appears to have taken place in the latter half of the 1920s. The road was partially rerouted and improved to a divided highway by 1945.

Notable locations

For an alphabetical list of locations, see the Green Springs Highway category.
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