Avondale
Avondale was a company town built around the Avondale Mills east of Birmingham, Alabama in Jefferson County. The town was incorporated on March 18, 1887.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Sloss Blast Furnace Site and Highland Park Golf Course.
Sloss Blast Furnace Site
Photo: DXR, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Sloss Furnaces is a National Historic Landmark in Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. It operated as a pig iron-producing blast furnace from 1882 to 1971.
Highland Park Golf Course
Golf course
Highland Park Golf Course is a public golf course in Birmingham, Alabama. Established in 1903 as the Country Club of Birmingham, it is the oldest golf course in the state of Alabama.
Birmingham Museum of Art
Museum
The Birmingham Museum of Art is a museum in Birmingham, Alabama. Its collection includes more than 24,000 paintings, sculptures, prints, drawings, and decorative arts representing various cultures, including Asian, European, American, African, Pre-Columbian, and Native American. Birmingham Museum of Art is situated 2 miles west of Avondale.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mountain Brook and Birmingham.
Mountain Brook
Town
Photo: Robert Donovan, CC BY 2.0.
Mountain Brook is a city in southeastern Jefferson County, Alabama, United States, and a suburb of Birmingham. Its population at the 2020 census was 22,461. Mountain Brook is situated 2 miles southeast of Avondale.
Birmingham
Photo: Patrick Cain, CC BY 3.0.
Birmingham is the largest city in Alabama, and its cultural and economic nucleus. While it's best remembered as the site of protest, bombings, and other racial tumult during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s, visitors to the Birmingham of today will find a pleasant green city of ridges, valleys, attractive views, and friendly, hospitable people.
Sumpter Smith Air National Guard Base
Locality
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Sumpter Smith Joint National Guard Base is a United States Air Force installation located at a Birmingham, Alabama in the United States. It hosts the 117th Air Refueling Wing, part of the Air National Guard, which operates the KC-135R Stratotanker. Sumpter Smith Air National Guard Base is situated 3½ miles northeast of Avondale.
Avondale
- Type: Neighborhood
- Description: neighborhood of Birmingham, Alabama
- Category: locality
- Location: Jefferson, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
33.52177° or 33° 31′ 18″ northLongitude
-86.77805° or 86° 46′ 41″ westElevation
643 feet (196 metres)Open location code
865MG6CC+PQOpenStreetMap ID
node 153629366OpenStreetMap feature
place=neighbourhood
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In Other Languages
From Dutch to Urdu—“Avondale” goes by many names.
- Dutch: “Avondale”
- French: “Avondale”
- Urdu: “ایونڈیل”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Adale Pilgrim Church and Avondale United Methodist Church.
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