Historical Sites

  1. City Hall
  2. Hoover Public Library
  3. Aldridge House and Gardens
  4. Patton Chapel Church, well and Cemetery – Google Map
  5. Hoover-Randle House
  6. Shades Crest Road Historical District – Google Map
  7. Lover’s Leap
  8. Park Avenue Historical District
  9. Historic Bluff Park School – Google Map
  10. HHS Folklore Center – Cloudland Drive
  11. Hale-Joseph House
  12. Overseers’ House
  13. Moss Rock Preserve
  14. Metropolitan Stadium
  15. Riverchase Galleria
  16. Crawford Fire Tower Cab – Google Map
  17. A History of Monte D’Oro
  18. Ross Bridge Historical Park – Google Map
  19. Brock’s (Railroad) Gap – Google Map
  20. Acton Mines – Google Map
  21. Founding of Hoover (Employer’s Insurance, Green Valley Drugs)

Patton Community Well Original Built in 1872

In 1858 James Taylor Ross, a Scotchman, acquired land near Oxmoor Valley. He provided land for the construction of the railway which was the gateway for the area’s iron/steel and coal industry, including a bridge spanning Ross Creek.

Aldridge Gardens is a 30-acre woodland garden featuring hydrangeas, and former home of Eddie Aldridge who discovered and patented the Snowflake Hydrangea.

Moss Rock Preserve is a beautiful 349-acre nature preserve with a boulder field used by native tribes as shelter during hunts. Lover’s Leap has Creek Indian lore and has been a place since the 1820’s for carving names, and even Byron poems, in the rocks.