Woodlawn (Birmingham) (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Woodlawn is the name of a community in the city of Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, United States.Present-day Woodlawn was settled by a group of farming families who entered the area in 1815, just as it was opened to settlement by the Treaty of Fort Jackson. The community took its name from the Wood family, headed by Obadiah Washington Wood and his son Edmond Wood, Huguenots from Greenville, South Carolina. The site they chose was a well-watered section of Jones Valley along the Georgia Road which extended deep into what was then still part of the Mississippi Territory.