Montgomery Avenue, Sheffield, Alabama

Montgomery Avenue, Sheffield, Alabama

Sheffield; Colbert County; Jewish Owned Businesses

Alfred Huger Moses was responsible for the layout of the residential, business, and industrial areas of Sheffield, Alabama, which was incorporated in 1895. He named Montgomery Avenue after Montgomery, Alabama where he and his family had lived (and where he and his wife are buried) before moving to Sheffield. The family home, which burned n the late 1880s, was located on North Montgomery Avenue near where the bluff overlooks the Tennessee River.

Pam Kingsbury, University of North Alabama

Special Collections, 55.3, from Said Schrader Collection. Collier Library, University of North Alabama, Florence, Alabama.

Alabama Cultural Resource Survey

circa 1894/5/

Pam Kingsbury, University of North Alabama

Photograph courtesy of Special Collections, UNA.

Text and photograph.