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The Morris Avenue Historic District is an industrial district in Birmingham, Alabama. The district covers Morris Avenue from 20th Street to 25th Street and First Avenue from 21st to 26th Street. The Morris Avenue section comprises a set of late 19th century masonry warehouses that were Birmingham's main food distribution center until the 1950s. [2]
In 2011, the American Planning Association named the Highland Park neighborhood of Birmingham as a 2011 America's Great Place. [20] In 2015, the International World Game Executive Committee selected Birmingham over Lima, Peru and Ufa, Russia , for the 2021 World Games, but the COVID-19 pandemic delayed the event by a year.
Birmingham and its surrounding area. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Birmingham, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Birmingham, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are provided for many ...
For purposes of community development and citizen participation, the City of Birmingham's nine Council districts are divided into a total of 23 communities, and again into a total of 99 individual neighborhoods with their own neighborhood associations. Communities do not necessarily follow Council District boundaries.
The name "Birmingham" comes from the Old English Beormingahām, [22] meaning the home or settlement of the Beormingas – a tribe or clan whose name literally means "Beorma's people" and which may have formed an early unit of Anglo-Saxon administration. [23]
Over the years, that claim was inflated to the improbable "Heaviest Corner on Earth", which remains a popular name for the grouping. [2] A marker, erected on May 23, 1985 by the Birmingham Historical Society, with cooperation from Operation New Birmingham, stands on the sidewalk outside the Empire Building describing the group.
Shopping streets in Birmingham, West Midlands (2 P) Pages in category "Streets in Birmingham, West Midlands" The following 16 pages are in this category, out of 16 total.
Birmingham was the first city to be named National City of Sport by the Sports Council. [386] Birmingham was selected ahead of London and Manchester to bid for the 1992 Summer Olympics, [387] but was unsuccessful in the final selection process, which was won by Barcelona. [388] Test cricket at Edgbaston Cricket Ground