Bluff Park

Bluff Park

by Heather Jones Skaggs
Bluff Park

Bluff Park

by Heather Jones Skaggs

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Overview

The community of Bluff Park is home to a variety of residents, ranging from retirees to working families. Historically speaking, Bluff Park was first developed as a mountain resort and summer vacation site. Gardner Cole Hale bought the mountain property in the 1860s and called it Hale Springs. One of the first recorded uses of the name Bluff Park was with the Bluff Park Hotel, built in 1907. After its resort days, the area became more residential. Several of the founding families in Bluff Park settled on the mountain, building homes and farms. One such family, the Hales, ran a lumber mill, a cotton gin, and an icehouse. The Tyler family ran a large dairy farm after they moved to the area around 1888. The community school started around 1899 as a one-room schoolhouse and church, and Bluff Park Elementary is now one of the top elementary schools in the city of Hoover.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780738590998
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing SC
Publication date: 02/04/2013
Series: Images of America Series
Pages: 128
Sales rank: 1,103,984
Product dimensions: 6.40(w) x 9.10(h) x 0.40(d)

About the Author

Bluff Park became a "cyber" community in 2006 with the launch of the Bluff Park community website BluffParkAL.org. In Images of America: Bluff Park, former editor for FOX6 News and current BluffParkAL.org volunteer Heather Jones Skaggs presents a collection of photographs and memories from family archives to illustrate the quiet mountain community's growth into a historical hot spot.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 6

Introduction 7

1 The Hale Family and Hale Springs 9

2 The Resorts 21

3 The Hale Brothers and the Homes They Built 35

4 The Tyler Family and Their Dairy Farm 43

5 The Schools and Churches 47

6 The Park Avenue Historical District 71

7 The Shades Crest Historical District 89

8 The Community 105

About the Organization 126

Bibliography 127

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