Gardendale is a town/city in Jefferson County, Alabama, United States and a northern suburb of Birmingham.
In 1906, the name Gardendale was chose, and in 1955, the City of Gardendale was officially incorporated.
Today, with more than 13,000 inhabitants (estimated), the town/city of Gardendale has grown to include more than 400 businesses, 4 schools, and 24 churches. From the north end of Gardendale, it is now Snow Rogers Road, North Road, Moncrief Road, and then Main Street southward through the town/city to the Fultondale town/city limit where it becomes Stouts Road.
In the fall of 2008, new signs were placed along the initial route of Stouts Road through Gardendale denoting its historical significance as a stagecoach route between Tennessee and Birmingham amid the 19th century.
31 at Tarrant Road, Fieldstown Road, and Moncrief Road as well as Tarrant Road at Pineywood Road.
A new signal at the intersection of Fieldstown Road and Main Street near town/city hall replaced a blinking signal shortly after that.
Fieldstown Road was a narrow two lane road from U.S.
31 westward until Interstate 65 was assembled and then Fieldstown Road was re-routed onto the new road in the mid-1980s.
Most of the newest residentiary evolution has been in this region and along Shady Grove Road south of Fieldstown Road.
The town/city has a working historical society, established January 23, 2006, that is working to record the history of the Gardendale area.
A new interstate highway, Interstate 22 will run northwestward from I-65 near Gardendale towards Memphis, Tennessee.
This freeway is open from Coalburg Road near Fultondale just southwest of Gardendale to Memphis.
Another future road universal is the Northern Beltline which will run from Interstate 59 near Argo westward athwart northern Jefferson County, crossing I-65 on the northern edge of Gardendale.
Major east/west roads in Gardendale include Fieldstown Road (there has been some discussion of requesting a state highway designation for this road between US 31 and I-65 and perhaps westward towards I-22) which runs from U.S.
31 in Gardendale westward, Tarrant Road which runs from the town/city eastward, and Mt.
Olive Road which runs northwestward from the city.
Another future road universal may be an extension of Fieldstown Road east of U.S.
31 to connect to the Castle Pines evolution (which is in the town/city but only accessible via a roundabout route nearly 10 miles (16 km) long) and then athwart New Castle Road, and then further east to connect to Carson Road.
Gardendale is positioned in an region that once yielded large amounts of coal.
Gardendale is positioned at the southwestern end of one of the Appalachian ridgelines running from easterly Tennessee into northeast Alabama.
No primary waterways are positioned in Gardendale but a several streams feed into the Locust Fork of the Black Warrior River that passes north and west of the city.
Much of the territory inside the town/city limits on the east and northeast sides of Gardendale is rocky and hilly with deep ravines.
This portion of the town/city is sparsely populated and has limited access by road.
The only primary rail line passing near Gardendale is a north/south track passing on the easterly edge of the town/city from Boyles Yard near Tarrant alongsideing New Castle Road northward towards Blount County.
Most new company development in the past ten years has been along Fieldstown Road (and Odum Road) on the west side of the town/city between I-65 and US 31.
Olive Road just south of Fieldstown Road.
This region is inside the Gardendale town/city limits.
The town/city is divided into five geographic districts with each one electing a council member to represent it on the town/city council.
The Fire & Rescue Department has two stations with station 1 positioned on Decatur Highway and station 2 positioned on Fieldstown Road.
Gardendale has a new City Hall that opened in 2015 on Main Street near the Civic Center.
The new Gardendale Civic Center is positioned on Main Street athwart from Gardendale High School.
Olive Road and Fieldstown Road.
A new municipal justice complex including court, police department, and jail has been positioned inside the former Food World building facing US 31 just North of the town/city center area.
It is positioned just off Moncrief Road on the northside of the city.
Luman Harris Park is a girls softball facility positioned just off Pineywood Road in the southeast part of the city.
Mini Park, consisting of a playground for lesser kids is positioned on Keith Circle, just north of Tarrant Road, four tenths of a mile east of US 31.
Celebration Park is positioned on Fieldstown Road on the edge of the town/city and contains two soccer fields and a walking track, a "splash pad" water park for children.
Memorial Park is positioned between Main Street and US 31 in the north central part of the town/city and honors those who have served in the US Armed Forces.
Past park facilities encompassed two tennis courts and the old civic center which were positioned adjoining to town/city hall in the center of the city, two tennis courts positioned on Tarrant Road in the easterly edge of the city, a mini park positioned at the corner of Peterson Drive and Tarrant Road which contained an asphalt basketball court, and a softball field that was positioned behind the south end of Bragg Middle School. Gardendale Elementary School which opened in 1969 and replaced the older elementary school positioned about 300 yards east of the current school.
Both Gardendale High School and Bragg Middle School use the nickname Rockets and share the same colors of maroon, gray, and white.
Gardendale High School is rated as a 6 - A school for athletic competition for the two-year reconstructionbeginning in the fall of 2010.
Also positioned on the north side of Gardendale is Snow Rogers Elementary School.
Snow Rogers school is unique in that although it is inside Gardendale town/city limits, it is a feeder school for both Bragg Middle School in Gardendale as well as North Jefferson Middle School positioned in close-by Kimberly, Alabama.
These schools in turn feed into Gardendale High School and Mortimer Jordan High School positioned in close-by Kimberly, Alabama.
Gardendale High School used the Rogers ground as well as temporary classroom buildings while a new high school was being constructed on the site of the former high school (which was assembled in the mid-1960s).
As of November 2013, the town/city has requested to break off from Jefferson county and form its own school fitness to gain small-town control of the schools. Tabernacle Christian School is positioned on the northern side of the town/city as a school run by Gardendale Baptist Tabernacle.
Gardendale Christian Academy is also positioned on the northern side as a school and daycare run by Gardendale Church of the Nazarene.
Gardendale was once home to the Rogers Area Vocational School which has now been completed to make way for soccer & baseball fields as well as student parking. Gardendale is positioned inside the Birmingham tv and radio market, the 39th biggest market in the United States.
Newspapers covering Gardendale include The Birmingham News (daily, based in neighboring Birmingham) and The North Jefferson News (twice weekly, based in Gardendale).
The broadcast studios and transmitter are not positioned in Gardendale even though the station is licensed to Gardendale.
Large hospitals offering secondary and tertiary care, including a trauma center, are positioned nearby in Birmingham, the home of the University of Alabama School of Medicine, the University Hospital, and a dozen other hospitals offering all kinds of care, including primary cardiac and brain surgery. Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) details for Gardendale, Alabama; United States Geological Survey (USGS); September 4, 1980.
City of Gardendale.
"Gardendale City Council".
City of Gardendale.
Gardendale City Board of Education; United States District Court for the Northern District of Alabama Southern Division.
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