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The Birmingham metropolitan area, sometimes known as Greater Birmingham, is a metropolitan area in north central Alabama centered on Birmingham, Alabama, United States.. As of 2023, the federal government defines the Birmingham, AL Metropolitan Statistical Area as consisting of seven counties (Bibb, Blount, Chilton, Jefferson, St. Clair, Shelby, and Walker) centered on Birmingham. [2]
Greater Birmingham can refer to: Birmingham, United Kingdom, and the area surrounding it, the West Midlands conurbation. Birmingham metropolitan area, Alabama, U.S.
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Birmingham Zoo was opened on 1 May 1964 by the Dudley Zoological Society, within Cannon Hill Park. The site of the park was once part of a 16th-century fulling mill, known as Pebble Mill. [3] It was designed to exhibit mainly young animals, but it also housed Dudley Zoo's collection of monkeys and two dromedaries for rides.
The February 1, 1999, episodes of Antiques Roadshow features the 1967 American Humane Association Trophy for Outstanding Achievement in Motion Pictures, appraised by Leila Dunbar. [4] On the trophy's base is a series of plaques listing the top winner in this category, matched with the year of the animal's movie work rather than the year the ...
Enon Ridge is a neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama. The hilly 180-acre area was home to Carrie A. Tuggle's Tuggle Institute which is now Tuggle Elementary. It was home to middle class African Americans. [1] It borders the Smithfield neighborhood. [2] The Tuggle Institute in 1906. Enon Ridge Cemetery is an early Jewish cemetery in the area. [3]
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a museum which chronicles the events, actions, and victories of the Civil Rights Movement, opened in 1993. On March 21, 2016, Rep. Terri Sewell introduced to the United States House of Representatives H.R. 4817, a bill that would designate the Birmingham Civil Rights District as a National Historical Park.
Blue plaque on Bennetts Hill.. Bennetts Hill was created as part of the 19th-century Inge estate development. [2] 11 Bennetts Hill (now demolished) was the birthplace of the artist Edward Burne-Jones in 1833, a fact commemorated by a Birmingham Civic Society blue plaque on the site.