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Gardendale, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Jefferson. Associated ZIP codes: 35071.
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Dale Morris, the legendary Nashville artist manager who helped build the superstar careers of Alabama and Kenny Chesney, has died. He was 89.
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Gardendale is in Jefferson County, Alabama.
Region: North Alabama
35071
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An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Gardendale, north of Birmingham, was opened to settlement by the treaties that followed Andrew Jackson's victory over the Creeks at Horseshoe Bend in 1814. In 1822 and 1823 Abraham Stout built a public road from Gandy's Cove in Morgan County to Elyton, closely following old Indian trails, and it passed directly through the area. The first recorded land purchase was by John Belcher in 1824, followed by Otis Dyer in 1828 and Zachariah Stagg in 1834, and James K. Jacks ran a tollgate on Stout's Road near his plantation.
Coal mines opened nearby in the 1870s, several run by John T. Milner, a founder of Birmingham, who gave lumber for the first school in 1892, named for him (spelled Millner on the town's marker). Early businesses included stores, sawmills, cotton gins and a gristmill, and dairies and farms dotted the area. The community was long known as Jugtown, for a large jug and churn factory; teacher Hettie Thomason Cargo, embarrassed to say she was from Jugtown at a teachers' meeting, led a campaign to rename it, and the name Gardendale was chosen in 1906. Gardendale was incorporated as a city in 1955. Before Interstate 65 was built, U.S. Route 31, the main road between Birmingham and Nashville, ran through town, and in 1996 the Olympic torch passed through on its way to the Atlanta games. Sources The Historical Marker Database: Gardendale, Alabama (Alabama Tourism Department and the Gardendale Historical Society) Wikipedia: Gardendale, Alabama
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