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Wood family (headed by patriarch Obadiah Woods) who were originally from Greenville, South Carolina.) Avondale, East Lake, North Birmingham, North Haven, Elyton, West End, and Ensley? Source: “Woodlawn is 75 years old” Birmingham News (September 14, 1958) Just like with Birmingham, Avondale was established (in 1887) when enterprising men saw potential in the expansive raw materials that “This group of men…acquired a large acreage surrounding King Spring, a big, bold stream that flows from the northside of Red According to that same article, Avondale got its name when some of the town’s founders went to Cincinnati, Ohio, to secure capital for their fledgling development. While there the men were taken on a tour where they wound up in Avondale, located in a hilly area, near the > “They were much impressed with the beauty of Cincinnati Avondale, > and returning home they decided upon that as the name for their > city. They reasoned, it is said, that here adjoining Birmingham on > the east, is a section comparable to the Avondale they had seen > while in Cincinnati, with its level area and its hills and mountain. > Avondale, they declared, was an appropriate name, and so they called It was a railroad company, The Alabama Great Southern, that was credited for Avondale’s fast growth. “The roundhouse Other industries soon followed. One of the largest to settle in the area was Avondale Mills Avondale was already established when Avondale Mills began production in 1897. The mills were named after the town.) “By 1898, Avondale Mills employed more than 400 people as spinners, weavers, and mechanics and generated $15,000 in profit,” according A number of poor fa*mers, black and white, from rural areas in Alabama made their way to Avondale to work in the mills. > “…the steady paychecks and working hours were very appealing > compared with life on the fa*m at a time when cotton prices were