Junior Rangers Discover Bats! at Rickwood Caverns
Rickwood Caverns State Park hosts “Junior Rangers Discover Bats!” on November 1 at 1:00 PM, part of its ongoing nature-education […]
History · 1830-1912
Col. J.F.B. Jackson: The Man Behind the Jackson House
Georgia sheriff, Confederate colonel, railroad builder, owner of the Jackson House at Blount Springs, Birmingham gas and street car pioneer, and the road superintendent who laid out Jefferson County's highways. His story, with a timeline and the newspaper pages behind it.
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What's coming up around west Blount County.
Professional Development - No School
No school for students -- teacher professional development day.
Yoga at the Hayden Community Center - Mondays
Weekly chair yoga (10 a.m.) and mat yoga (6:30 p.m.) at the Hayden Community Center.
Family Story Time at the Hayden Community Center - Wednesdays
Weekly Family Story Time, Wednesdays at 10 a.m. at the Hayden Community Center.
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Directory
Businesses, services, and civic resources across West Blount County.
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History
The railroads, springs, covered bridges, and caverns of west Blount County, and the families who lived beside them.
An Autumn Day at the Old Home Town
A 1915 dispatch from Blount Springs, published in the Birmingham Age-Herald less than a year after the resort's second hotel fire.
A Near Birmingham Resort - Blount Springs
A 1921 case for Blount Springs' revival, published in the Birmingham Age-Herald - the resort's history, its assets, and its two occupied graves.
The Lime Kilns of Blount Springs
An old kiln still standing near Highway 31 marks a real industrial history at Blount Springs -- a lime-and-quarry operation that cost two rail workers their lives and, per an 1885 state report, ran on convict labor.