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	Map 1 Area South of Birmingport Hwy (Ala Hwy 269) and west of Interstate 20/59
Adger Mining community named (date being researched) for Andrew Moffett Adger (1846-1915), Secretary & Treasurer for DeBardeleben Coal and Iron Company. Link to Wikipedia article	Hopkins	Rock Creek Farming community around Rock Creek Baptist Church which was organized in 1822.
Alliance Farming community named for The Farmer's Alliance Cooperative Organization which met at Liberty Baptist Church. The meetings were later moved to the newly built Meeting Hall/School which took on the name of Alliance.	Hueytown History of Hueytown by Simon J. Smith (1962) The History of Hueytown by Mary K. Roberts (1992) A Brief History of Alabama and Hueytown by Ruth Davidson (2009)	Rutledge Springs Community of a few homesites, named for James Rutledge (1789-1864), east of Bethlehem Methodist Church; obliterated in early 1970s for Interstate 20/59 right-of-way and Exit #115 ramps. Rutledge Springs – Bethlehem Church
Concord (fka Piney Woods) Farming community around Concord Baptist Church which was organized in 1887. Link to Wikipedia article	Maxine	Short Creek
Dolomite Coal miner housing community, begun circa 1881-1883, built by the Woodward Iron Co. (later bought by the Mead Corp) for the company's first coal mines - Dolomite #1. Part 1 \| Part 2 \| Part 3 \| Part 4	McDonald Chapel Farming community around McDonald Chapel Methodist Church (organized 1866) named for Rev. William Buell McDonald (1807-1883).	Sylvan Springs Farming community around community church organized in 1884 as Oak Grove Methodist Church. Church was renamed West Grove and, in the 1980s, the church was renamed to First United Methodist Church of Sylvan Springs. Area was known as Hoagtown, named for William Thomas Hogan (1847-1931) and incorporated as Sylvan Springs in 1957. Link to Bhamwiki article Town of Sylvan Springs website
Edgewater Miner housing community, begun in 1911, built by the (TCI) Tennessee Coal & Iron Division of U. S. Steel Corp for the company's Edgewater coal mine. History of Edgewater from 1911 Link to Bhamwiki article	Oak Grove Farming community around Oak Grove First Baptist Church which was organized in 1881.	Toadvine An article about Toadvine in the September 6, 1876 Iron Age newspaper How Toadvine Got Its Name in the September 28, 1928 The Birmingham News
Ezra	North Johns Link to Bhamwiki article	Valley Creek
Garywood	Pleasant Grove (fka Frog Pond & Apex) Farming community which expanded once the Woodward Iron Co. opened their Dolomite Mine #3 in 1916. Incorporated in January 1934. Link to Bhamwiki article	Virginia Mines Community around a coal mine shaft that opened in 1899.
Gilmore	Powhatan	Woodward Began, circa 1882-1883, as housing community for workers at the Woodward Iron Company's (later bought by the Mead Corp) blast furnaces.
	Providence Farming community around Providence Baptist Church.	Wylam Coal miner housing community, begun in 1886, around the Tennessee, Coal & Iron Co. (TCI was bought by U. S. Steel in 1907) coal mines - Number One and Number Two. Link to Bhamwiki article

General Histories Postmasters of southwest Jefferson County Woodward Iron Company’s Land Acquisition	Other links Birmingham Rewound (dedicated to our Magic City memories) Black Warrior and Tombigbee Lakes	Bhamwiki website articles Birmingham Southern Railroad Iron & Steel Museum of Alabama Oak Grove Mine Shoal Creek Mine Tennessee, Coal, Iron & Railroad Company U.S. Steel's Ensley Works Woodward Iron Company

	Map 2 Area North of Birmingport Hwy (Ala Hwy 269) and west of Interstate 65 (basically northwest Jefferson County)
Adamsville Farming community named for William M. Adams (1843-1909). Coal mine opened about 1890 and the town incorporated in 1901. Link to Bhamwiki article	Docena (name chosen as 'dozen' in Spanish) Coal miner housing community, begun circa 1905, built by the Tennessee, Coal & Iron Co. (TCI was bought by U. S. Steel in 1907) for coal mine shaft #12. The mine closed in 1962. Link to Bhamwiki article	Mulga Coal mining community started in 1909 by The Birmingham Coal and Iron Company. Woodward Iron Company bought the mine in 1910-1914. (Was Mulga named for the nearby Mulga Creek?) Link to Wikipedia article
Alden (Mine was opened in 1934)	Flat Creek	Palos (A coal mine was open by 1898)
Banner Mine Coal mine north-northwest of Graysville built by the Pratt Consolidated Coal Company which began operations on October 14, 1904. Operations ceased when?	Flat Top	Pinkney City
Bayview Coal miner housing community, begun circa 1909, built by the Tennessee, Coal & Iron Division of U. S. Steel. Link to Bhamwiki article	Forestdale Community (named for or by?) around the intersection of U. S. Hwy 78 and Heflin Avenue.	Porter
Bessie / Maben Coal mining camp owned by Sloss-Sheffield Steel & Iron Co. J. C. Maben was president of the company in 1907.	Graysville (fka Gin Town) Link to Bhamwiki article	Praco Mining camp for Pratt Consolidated Coal Company. Mine was operating in 1937. Community no longer exists.
Blossburg	Hillview (f.k.a. Cat Mountain area) Community around Hillview Baptist Church which was organized as New Hope Baptist Church in 1893.	Pratt City (fka Coketon/Coketown) Pratt Mines community begun in 1886; annexed into Birmingham in 1910.
Brookside Link to Bhamwiki article Brookside Mine Link to Bhamwiki article	Labuco Named for the Lacey-Buek Iron Company which opened a coal mine in 1905. Several companies operated the mine until it was permanently closed in 1963.	Republic Began as housing for coal miners at Republic Steel's coal mine.
Cardiff Coal mining community for Sloss Iron & Steel Company. Link to Bhamwiki article	Linbergh	Sandusky Community northwest of Pratt City on the old Pratt Hwy.
Coalburg Sloss Iron & Steel Co.'s coal mining community. Started by Coalburg Coal and Coke Company?	Maytown Named for William Lucius May, MD (1874-1948) who gave the land for the Maytown Baptist Church which was organized in 1911. Link to Bhamwiki article	Sayre
Crumly Chapel Farming community named for Robert Crumly (1800-1882) settled circa 1858 by Oliver Shoemaker and Jack (John) Echols.	Mineral Springs	West Jefferson Link to Bhamwiki article
Daisey City	Minor Heights Community around the previous Minor High School location. The school's first full school year was 1922 -23.


General Histories	Other links	Bhamwiki website articles Five Mile Creek Village Creek

	nearby Map 4 Area East of I-20/59 in western Jefferson County
		Bhamwiki website articles Brighton Fairfield Lipscomb Lloyd Nolan Hospital in Fairfield (a.k.a. TCI Hospital)