About Vestavia Hills, Alabama

Vestavia Hills is a city of 39,102 people in Jefferson County, with parts reaching into Shelby County, on top of Shades Mountain. Early in the twentieth century, wealthy Birmingham families wanted to get away from the smoke and noise of the industrial city below, so they began building country estates up here.

Ward died in 1940, and developer Charles Byrd bought his estate with a plan for a mountaintop community of 1,000 homes called Vestavia Hills. Byrd started building in 1946, during the housing boom after World War II. An elementary school and several churches soon followed, and the new Montgomery Highway linked the community to the state capital. Vestavia Hills became a city on November 8, 1950, and kept growing as new shops and neighborhoods pushed its borders outward into the late 1960s.

  • A temple on the mountainGeorge Battey Ward, a former mayor of Birmingham, built his home here in 1924. He called it Vestavia, for the Roman goddess Vesta, because the house copied her temple in Rome. The round house had dark pink sandstone walls ringed by 20 white Doric columns, and peacocks and statues filled its gardens. In 1929 Ward added a gazebo based on the temple of Sibyl in Tivoli.
  • From mansion to churchVestavia Hills Baptist Church was organized on May 6, 1957, and held its first services at City Hall. In 1958 it bought the Ward estate, which by then had a restaurant added in the 1940s, and the congregation worshiped in the old temple. As the house wore out and membership grew, the church tore down most of it and finished its present building in 1972. A central portion of Ward's house still stands as part of the church.
  • Sibyl at the gatewayThe church gave Ward's Sibyl gazebo to the city. In 1976 the local garden club moved it to a rocky outcrop near the highway, where it became a landmark at the entrance to the community. The spot is now Sibyl Temple Park.
  • Schools of its own in 1970Vestavia Hills started its own school system in 1970. Members of the Pizitz family, who founded Birmingham's Pizitz Department Store and lived in Vestavia Hills, gave the land for both the junior high and the high school. The high school's wrestlers have since won 15 state championships, the most of any team in Alabama history.

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Names on the Vestavia Hills map

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Places and landmarks40

  • Vestavia Hills City Hall
  • Acton
  • Altadena Forest Estates
  • Altadena Ridge Estates
  • Arbor Crossing
  • Asbury Park
  • Beacon Hills
  • Biltmore Estates
  • Brentwood Hills
  • Cahaba Heights
  • Cherokee Forest
  • Chimney Hills
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  • Country Ridge Estates
  • Countrywood Highlands
  • Coventry
  • Crossgate
  • Derby Downs Estates
  • Dolly Ridge Estates
  • Green View Estates
  • Hickory Ridge Estates
  • Millbrook Estates
  • Montclair
  • Montreat
  • Mountain Branch Estates
  • Mountain Woods Park
  • Overton Manor
  • Panorama
  • Plantation Point
  • Rocky Bridge
  • Rocky Ridge
  • Sagewood
  • Shades View Estates
  • Vesclub Estates
  • Vestavia Hills Estates
  • Vestbrook Trace
  • Vestridge
  • Watkins Glen
  • Wellington Park
  • Westbrook Trace
  • Wisteria Commons

Streets and roads113

  • Montgomery Highway
  • Columbiana Road
  • Blue Lake Drive
  • Ternview Road
  • Dolly Ridge Road
  • Liberty Parkway
  • Old Overton Club Drive
  • Sicard Hollow Road
  • Lake Parkway
  • Cahaba Heights Road
  • Tyler Road
  • River View Drive
  • Overton Road
  • Valley Park Drive
  • Green Valley Road
  • Badham Drive
  • Acton Road
  • Old Overton Road
  • Altaloma Drive
  • Post Oak Road
  • East Street
  • Massey Road
  • Reynolds Lane
  • Founders Drive
  • Lake Run Drive
  • Yorkmont Drive
  • Laurel Road
  • Hillway Drive
  • Alston Way
  • Catala Road
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  • Hays Circle
  • Ida Lane
  • Old Florida Short Route
  • Vestavia Forest Place
  • Vestlake Ridge Drive
  • Shades Crest Road
  • Cahaba River Road
  • Altadena Road
  • Pipe Line Road
  • Southwood Road
  • Woodridge Place
  • Boulder Lake Circle
  • Lake Colony Lane
  • Garland Drive
  • Kings Mountain Ridge
  • Wisteria Drive
  • Pine Crest Drive
  • Indian Hill Road
  • Smyer Road
  • Wickford Road
  • Coventry Drive
  • Taralane Drive
  • Linda Vista Drive
  • Willoughby Road
  • Montreat Drive
  • Liberty Park Lane
  • Magnolia Ridge
  • Norwich Drive
  • Staffordshire Lane
  • Chestnut Street
  • River Run Drive
  • Pump House Road
  • Pizitz Drive
  • Viking Circle
  • Lakeland Trail
  • Belwood Drive
  • Hillard Drive
  • Urban Center Drive
  • Poe Drive
  • River Run Lane
  • Lee Alley
  • White Oak Drive
  • Jacobs Road
  • Chestnut Road
  • Ridgely Drive
  • Ashland Lane
  • Hickory Road
  • Vestavia Lake Drive
  • Kenvil Circle
  • Kings Mountain Road
  • Caledonian Way
  • Valley Circle
  • Squire Lane
  • South Cove Drive
  • Mayland Lane
  • Park Hill Drive
  • Lake Colony Drive
  • Rosemary Lane
  • Comer Drive
  • Old Brook Trail
  • Canyon Creek Lane
  • Forest View Lane
  • Galen Way
  • Wall Street
  • Vestavia Parkway
  • Dolly Ridge Drive
  • Vesclub Circle
  • Indian Creek Drive
  • Roundhill Road
  • South Liberty Road
  • Mountain View Lane
  • Third Avenue
  • Altaridge Drive
  • Vestlake Cove Drive
  • Vesclub Lane
  • Panorama Lane
  • Healthy Way
  • First Avenue
  • Colony Park Drive
  • Brent Drive
  • Jones Drive
  • Fargo Drive
  • Acton Drive

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