Forest Park

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Forest Park is an historic residential neighborhood on the south side of Birmingham. The main residential neighborhoods were designed and developed by the Jemison Company in the 1920s.

It has been designated a local historic district by the Birmingham Historical Commission and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1980. The Forest Park Historic District includes the area surrounding Clairmont Avenue and Highland Golf Course from 38th Street South to Linwood Road and from Cherry Street to Overlook Avenue.

A small commercial district on Clairmont Avenue includes Zoe's Forest Park, Maralyn Wilson Gallery, V. Richards, Naked Art, Silvertron Café, Little Savannah, La Reunion, andGaia's.

In the Birmingham Community Participation Program, Forest Park is part of the Forest Park-South Avondale neighborhood in the Red Mountain community.

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