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Alabama Coaches Co. on Main Street – Part 2
In the first few years after Alabama Coaches Co. began operating out of their new terminal on Main Street, transportation in the state...
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Oct 9, 20183 min read
Alabama Coaches Building on Main Street – Part 3
As the Alabama Coach Co. business went into a shell in the 1950’s, the Town House restaurant associated with it, which was located on the...
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Oct 8, 20182 min read
The Elliott Corner
The southeast corner of the intersection of Main and North Boundary Streets was referred to as “the Elliott Corner” in the April 3, 1958...
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Oct 7, 20183 min read
Elliott’s Grocery Store
Unlike the practice of the other numerous grocery stores in Montevallo during the mid-twentieth century, there is scant evidence that...
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Oct 6, 20183 min read
The Ups and Downs of a Vacant Lot
It’s interesting and perhaps a bit ironic that the lot on Main Street that was cleared in 2017 so it could become the open space for...
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Oct 5, 20183 min read
More Vacant Lots
The area between the Regions Bank Drive-through and KFC on Main Street (actually two full lots) is being used today for driveways and...
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Oct 4, 20183 min read
Jolly Cholly
While we are accustomed to Main Street being home to a string of businesses all the way to Montevallo High School, both sides of the...
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Oct 3, 20182 min read
A Residential Legacy
As we continue to make our way east on Main Street, it’s interesting to note the residential legacy of the three lots across the street...
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Oct 2, 20183 min read
In the Curve
Two Montevallo historians, Judge E.S. Lyman writing in 1908 and Miss Eloise Meroney in 1977, both tell the story about how Main Street,...
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Oct 1, 20182 min read
Main Street between Bloch and Wadsworth
Well into the mid-twentieth century, both sides of Main Street between Bloch and Wadsworth Streets, which intersect Main from the north,...
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Sep 30, 20182 min read
End of the Line
Before any businesses came to the area just past the Housing Authority complex, which is known today as the “Village on Valley,” the...
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