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Vestavia Hills, AL - History
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Welcome to the Vestavia Hills Home page. The Vestavia Hills Home page provides as much information as possible on Vestavia Hills. Knowing Vestavia Hills’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Vestavia Hills’s Home page, you will also find Vestavia Hills’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Vestavia Hills has a population of 34482. 47.7% of Vestavia Hills’s inhabitants are Male, and 52.3 are female. 62.9% of Vestavia Hills is married and 77.5% own their own home. The Average Home price is $380,249, and the average rent is $1,313. Household median income in Vestavia Hills is $110,478, and the individual median income is $49,950. Vestavia Hills’s Ethnic is the following: White(85.8%), Black(6.5%), Asian(4.4%), Hispanic(2.7%), Multiple(2.3%), Other(0.9%), Native(0.1%), Pacific(0.1%).
Vestavia Hills is named for the 20-acre (8.1 ha) estate of former Birmingham mayor George B. Ward. It was situated on the crest of Shades Mountain in what is now the northern edge of the city. Ward's mansion at the Vestavia estate became a landmark in the area as soon as it was completed in 1925. The 2+1⁄2-story house was patterned after the circular Temple of Vesta in Rome, with dark pink sandstone walls encircled by 20 massive white Doric columns surmounted by a carved entablature.
The extensive gardens, populated by statuary and peacocks, surrounded a smaller domed gazebo patterned after the Temple of Sibyl in Tivoli. After Ward's death, the house, something of a tourist stop near the highway between Birmingham and Montgomery, was used as a tearoom and reception hall before being purchased by Vestavia Hills Baptist Church.
The church met in the temple like structure for several years before demolishing a portion of the building in 1971 to make way for a larger building; a central portion of the original building remains. The local garden club moved the gazebo to a prominent outcropping closer to the highway, there to serve as a landmark gateway into the community. The development of Vestavia Hills as a residential suburb began in 1946, when developer Charles Byrd planned a subdivision for approximately 1,000 people on the southern flank of Shades Mountain.
The suburb was incorporated as a separate city on November 8, 1950, and has since grown, by rapid development and annexation, into a thriving small city of over 39,000 by 2020. On June 16, 2022, a shooting occurred at Saint Stephen's Episcopal Church in Cahaba Heights. All three victims died from their injuries.
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