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Historic American Buildings Survey (HABS) No. AL-909, "First Methodist Church, 1900 Third Avenue North, Jasper, Walker County, AL", 4 photos, 6 data pages, 1 photo caption page HABS No. AL-979, " John Hollis Bankhead House, 1400 Seventh Avenue, Jasper, Walker County, AL ", 1 photo, 5 data pages, 1 photo caption page
Walker County is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of Alabama. [1] As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,342. [2] Its county seat is Jasper. [3] Its name is in honor of John Williams Walker, the first U.S. senator elected from Alabama. [1] Walker County comprises the entirety of the Jasper, AL Micropolitan ...
Jasper is a city in and the county seat of [2] Walker County, Alabama, United States. Its population was 14,352 as of the 2010 census. [ 3 ] Named in honor of Sergeant William Jasper , an American Revolutionary War hero, Jasper was settled around 1815 and incorporated on August 18, 1886.
For example, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution [22] and Creative Loafing [59] both defined The Bluff as including all of English Avenue and Vine City. However, a more recent and in-depth December 2011 series of reports by 11 Alive TV news, referred to The Bluff as a "section of English Avenue".
Sharp Development Group, led by Sam Sharp, [6] purchased the mall from Jasper Mall Associates in 1996. [2] Third anchor Belk opened an approximately 60,000-square-foot (5,600 m 2) store in March 2002. [7] [8] [9] This was part of an 80,000-square-foot (7,400 m 2) expansion of the mall by Sharp Realty. [10]
The Classical Revival-style house was built for John H. Bankhead in 1910. [3] He served in the Alabama Legislature, as a U.S. Representative, and as a U.S. Senator.His granddaughter, the award-winning actress Tallulah Brockman Bankhead and her sister Eugenia, were raised in the house when Congress was not in session. [2]
Walker County Airport covers an area of 297 acres (120 ha) which contains one runway (9/27) with a 5,003 x 100 ft (1,525 x 30 m) asphalt pavement. For the 12-month period ending April 5, 2000, the airport had 33,616 aircraft operations, an average of 92 per day: 99.7% general aviation and 0.3% military.
The company was founded in Jasper, Alabama in 1935 by Heman Edward Drummond, an Alabama coal miner. [1] [2] [3] Drummond started mining on land he inherited from his family; he used mules to drag coal out of the mines. [1] When Drummond died in 1956, the company remained family-owned. [1]