Traces of Birmingham’s past are everywhere you look, including the streets we walk down each day.
Head on down to the corner of Morris Avenue and 20th Street North, and there is a historical marker that recognizes where the Elyton Land Company founded The Magic City, which reads:
“Morris Avenue was named for one of the founders of Birmingham, Josiah Morris, who paid $100,000 for 4,157 acres of the original site of the city in 1870. At the suggestion of Mr. Morris, the city was named for England’s industrial district. This avenue was the principal wholesale trade district of the city and enjoyed its greatest popularity from 1880 to 1900. Some of the city’s most prominent families owned business firms here……