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Website. ruffnermountain.org. Ruffner Mountain Nature Preserve is a 1,038 acres (4.20 km 2) nature preserve located in the eastern portion of Jefferson County, Alabama, in the City of Birmingham's historic South East Lake neighborhood. The preserve includes a visitor center containing native Alabama animals including raptors, snakes, turtles ...
Leland Kent is an American photographer known for photographing abandoned and forgotten places across the Southeast. He has published six photography books: Abandoned Birmingham, Abandoned Georgia: Exploring the Peach State, Abandoned Georgia: Traveling the Backroads, Abandoned New Orleans, Abandoned North Florida and Abandoned Alabama: Exploring the Heart of Dixie.
There are 175 properties and districts listed on the National Register in Jefferson County, including 3 National Historic Landmarks. 149 of these sites, including all of the National Historic Landmarks, are located in Birmingham, and are listed here, while 27 sites are listed separately. One district, the Red Mountain Suburbs Historic District ...
Abandoned / demolished: Former company town for W.P. Brown and Sons Lumber Co., some plots still visible near intersection of Tabernacle Road and Brownville Pike Road in Northwestern Tuscaloosa County Cahaba [4] [3] Dallas: 1819: 1865: Abandoned: First capital of Alabama, from 1820-1826 Cedric [4] Randolph: Four miles southwest of Roanoke ...
Designated ARLH. February 19, 1988 [2] The Pratt City Carline Historic District, in Birmingham, Alabama, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1989. [1] Also known as the Carline District, it developed along a historic streetcar line. It is roughly along Ave. U from Ave. A to Carline and Carline from Ave. W to 6th St. [3][1]
December 2, 1970. Arlington Antebellum Home & Gardens, or Arlington Historic House, is a former plantation and 6 acres (24,000 m 2) of landscaped gardens near downtown Birmingham, Alabama. The two-story frame structure was built by enslaved people between 1845–50. Its style is antebellum -era Greek Revival architecture.
The Anderson Place Historic District, in Birmingham, Alabama, is a residential historic district which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1986, and the listing was expanded in 1991. [1] The houses date from 1907 to 1912 and include Tudor Revival, Queen Anne, and Bungalow/Craftsman architecture.
The proximity of Red Mountain's ore to nearby sources of coal and limestone was the impetus to develop and promote the Birmingham District as an industrial site. The mining of iron ore along Red Mountain began in the early 1860s as the Civil War created a demand for iron necessary to sustain the Confederate war efforts.