Bluff Park, Alabama Forum - Tyler Rd House Re-Zoning

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Re: Tyler Rd House Re-Zoning
Reply #30 - 08/21/08 at 10:52pm

I have a copy of "Let's call it Bluff Park". It was given to me by my dad when I moved back after college. There is no picture of the house on Tyler Road. I am sad to see it go, but I don't think it has any significant historical importance to Bluff Park. The first homes in Bluff Park were built along Shades Crest because of the close proximity to the springs on the bluff where they got their water. After those original houses came Octavia Spencer around 1850. He purchased 400 acres and built 40 log cabins and dancing pavillion for vacationers. It was called Spencer Springs until Gardner Hale bought the property (Hale Springs). Then the Tyler family dairy, then the hotel......

Many people don't realize how far back Bluff Park goes and the remnants of that time still remain. The stone arches you see in front and on some of the houses on shades crest were built from the left over limestore used on the Bluff Park Hotel. There is stuff like that everywhere up here.

Another note of interest - across Oxmoor Road from the BP at the bottom of the hill is a cemetery. It's in the woods and hard to see. It was cleaned up at the end of last winter but it's grown back up. Some of those people were employees of L&N railroad. Those are the same people who vacationed on the crest and stayed at BP Hotel.

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Re: Tyler Rd House Re-Zoning
Reply #31 - 08/22/08 at 10:04am

More about the house on Tyler Road

From the book A History of Hoover, Alabama and Its People, written in 1992
Chapter 2 pg. 9
The oldest known house on Shades Mountain is the two - story log cabin of Dorah Sterne (Mrs, Mervyn H. ) on Tyler Road. built in 1819 in Mount Pinson by Peter Ingle, the home was moved to Tyler Road in the late 1940's by Edward Beaumonts and was sold soon afterwards to the Sternes.

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Re: Tyler Rd House Re-Zoning
Reply #32 - 08/22/08 at 3:14pm

Quote from rlfbhm on 08/21/08 at 10:52pm:

I have a copy of "Let's call it Bluff Park". It was given to me by my dad when I moved back after college. There is no picture of the house on Tyler Road. I am sad to see it go, but I don't think it has any significant historical importance to Bluff Park. The first homes in Bluff Park were built along Shades Crest because of the close proximity to the springs on the bluff where they got their water. After those original houses came Octavia Spencer around 1850. He purchased 400 acres and built 40 log cabins and dancing pavillion for vacationers. It was called Spencer Springs until Gardner Hale bought the property (Hale Springs). Then the Tyler family dairy, then the hotel......

Many people don't realize how far back Bluff Park goes and the remnants of that time still remain. The stone arches you see in front and on some of the houses on shades crest were built from the left over limestore used on the Bluff Park Hotel. There is stuff like that everywhere up here.

Another note of interest - across Oxmoor Road from the BP at the bottom of the hill is a cemetery. It's in the woods and hard to see. It was cleaned up at the end of last winter but it's grown back up. Some of those people were employees of L&N railroad. Those are the same people who vacationed on the crest and stayed at BP Hotel.

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bpresident Global Moderator I Love Bluff Park! Posts: 251	Re: Tyler Rd House Re-Zoning Reply #33 - 08/27/08 at 8:40am Looks like the old house will become part of the new houses: http://www.al.com/news/birminghamnews/hoover.ssf?/base/community/121982520742980 .xml&coll=2
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