Part of the 4-miliion-selling-trademark series from Anova Books - a vivid historical tour of Birmingham, with the same view photographed today, from a great local author.A late arrival on the Southern landscape, the city of Birmingham was not incorporated until after the Civil War. In fact, from 1820 to 1871, what is now Birmingham was known as the hamlet of Elyton, a small crossroads set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachian Mountains where several Pony Express and stage routes crossed paths. When two railroads eventually intersected at this point—where, significantly, all the ingredients necessary to make iron existed in close proximity—the region's growth exploded. Birmingham's history is not a story of the grace and vanished grandeur of an antebellum past, but rather, a dynamic story of modern American industrialization.Sites covered include: Hollywood, Alabama State Fairgrounds, Vulcan Park, Mountain Brook Village, The Old Mill, Avondale Park, Highland Park, Woodlawn High, Quinlan Castle, Five Points South, Bottega Favorita, Old Jefferson County Courthouse, Capitol Park, Tutwiler Hotel, Twentieth Street, Louise Wooster Brothel, Alabama Theatre, Kress Department Store, Joy Young Restaurant, Terminal Station, Molton Hotel, Lovemans, Massey Building, Bright Star, Temple of Sibyl, Sloss Furnaces, Red Mountain and Legion Field.
ISBN: | 9781909815056 |
Publication date: | 1st April 2014 |
Author: | Todd Keith |
Publisher: | Pavilion an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers |
Format: | Hardback |
Pagination: | 144 pages |
Series: | Then and Now |
Genres: |
Places and peoples: general and pictorial works Urban communities Social and cultural history Industrialisation and industrial history Historical geography Industrial archaeology Local history Places in old photographs |