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Bob Wallace Avenue and Sparkman Drive are major thoroughfares in Huntsville, Alabama that connect to make a horseshoe-shaped road around the city. The two roads run through several residential neighborhoods and school zones including the University of Alabama in Huntsville. On average, approximately 21,000 vehicles travel along the roads each day. Description US-72 enters the city of Huntsville over Chapman Mountain from the north east and follows exit 21 on I-565 to intersect US-231/431 (Memorial Parkway) in north Huntsville where it becomes Sparkman Drive. The five lane road travels west, intersecting Blue Spring Road, and enters into a residential area. The road then intersects Pulaski Pike before turning southwest, providing access to Highlands Elementary School and the Academy for Academics and Arts magnet school (formerly Ed White Middle School (Alabama), Ed White Middle School). Sparkman Drive intersects Jordan Lane (Alabama State Route 53, SR-53) and continues heading sou ...
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Google Maps
Google Maps is a web mapping platform and consumer application offered by Google. It offers satellite imagery, aerial photography, street maps, 360° interactive panorama, interactive panoramic views of streets (Google Street View, Street View), real-time traffic conditions, and route planner, route planning for traveling by foot, car, bike, air (in Software release life cycle#Beta, beta) and public transportation. , Google Maps was being used by over one billion people every month around the world. Google Maps began as a C++ desktop program developed by brothers Lars Rasmussen (software developer), Lars and Jens Eilstrup Rasmussen, Jens Rasmussen, Stephen Ma and Noel Gordon in Australia at Where 2 Technologies. In October 2004, the company was acquired by Google, which converted it into a web application. After additional acquisitions of a geospatial data visualization company and a real-time traffic analyzer, Google Maps was launched in February 2005. The service's Front and ...
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Cummings Research Park
Cummings Research Park, located primarily in the city of Huntsville, Alabama is the second largest research park in the United States and the fourth largest in the world. It has a mixture of Fortune 500 companies, local and international high-tech enterprises, U.S. space and defense agencies, business incubators and competitive higher-education institutions. CRP is the home of 300 companies, more than 26,000 employees and 13,500 students. The Park's major industries are aerospace, defense, engineering, biotechnology, advanced manufacturing, software development, information technology and cybersecurity. Cummings Research Park was voted as the Most Outstanding Science Park in the World in 1997 by the Association of University Research Parks. In 2017, it was presented with the Developing Communities of Innovation award. History In 1961, Milton K. Cummings, then president of Brown Engineering Company, and Joseph C. Moquin, his later successor, selected a tract of undeveloped land ...
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Streets In Alabama
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Huntsville Shuttle Bus
The Orbit fixed-route bus system began in 1990 in response to the growing population and congestion of the city of Huntsville, Alabama. The system is run by the city of Huntsville, and is funded by city and federal funds. (Alabama law prohibits state funding of public transit.) History Huntsville had a streetcar system in the early 1900s linking downtown to outlying mill villages like Five Points and Lowe Mill. The system was dismantled in the late 1940s. In 1990, the city of Huntsville decided to form the Department of Parking and Public Transit, which included the Shuttle. It began with two routes, the Red and Blue Core Loops which served downtown, the Medical District and surrounding areas. By 2004, the system had expanded to ten routes and a Tourist Trolley. That year, a new bus terminal was built at Church and Cleveland Streets near the Huntsville Depot. In 2005, the city began weekend evening service to the downtown and Five Points areas. In 2006, bike racks were instal ...
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Oakwood University
Oakwood University is a private, historically black Seventh-day Adventist university in Huntsville, Alabama. It is the only HBCU owned and operated by the Seventh-day Adventist Church. Oakwood University is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS) and the Department of Education of the General Conference of Seventh-day Adventists (through the Adventist Accrediting Association) to award associate, baccalaureate, and master's degrees. Oakwood University owns and operates the Christian radio station WJOU 90.1 FM, formerly WOCG. Oakwood University is the only ISO 9001 certified HBCU in the United States. In 2014, it became the first HBCU to offer a Massive Open Online Course (MOOC). In 2018, the U.S. Senate recognized Oakwood University for being the fifth leading producer of African-American applicants to U.S. medical schools. That same year, the university became the first academic institution to receive the 2018 Crystal Apple Award from t ...
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Bob Wallace Ave Huntsville Exit
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Huntsville High School (Alabama)
Huntsville High School is an American public high school in Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama in the Huntsville metropolitan area. It is part of the Huntsville City Schools district with approximately 1,850 students currently enrolled in grades 9–12.Huntsville High School website
Retrieved on December 1, 2021.
The school is located at the intersection of Bob Wallace Avenue (formerly 13th Street West) and Billie Watkins Street. In 2014, the school constructed its Freshman Academy on-site, intended to facilitate students' transition from middle school to high school and in which the majority of its freshman classes take place. The school offers 15

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Louisville And Nashville Railroad
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad , commonly called the L&N, was a Class I railroad that operated freight and passenger services in the southeast United States. Chartered by the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1850, the road grew into one of the great success stories of American business. Operating under one name continuously for 132 years, it survived civil war and economic depression and several waves of social and technological change. Under Milton H. Smith, president of the company for 30 years, the L&N grew from a road with less than of track to a system serving fourteen states. As one of the premier Southern railroads, the L&N extended its reach far beyond its namesake cities, stretching to St. Louis, Memphis, Atlanta, and New Orleans. The railroad was economically strong throughout its lifetime, operating freight and passenger trains in a manner that earned it the nickname, "The Old Reliable". Growth of the railroad continued until its purchase and the tumultuous ...
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Milton Frank Stadium
Milton Frank Stadium is a 12,000-seat multi-purpose stadium in Huntsville, Alabama. It was used for Alabama A&M football games before the creation of Louis Crews Stadium. It is currently used mainly for Huntsville City Schools high school and middle school football and soccer games and track meets. Construction began in 1949 and the stadium was opened in 1962 as Huntsville Stadium. It was soon renamed Milton Frank Stadium in honor of Milton Frank, the long-time football coach and athletic director of Huntsville High School and chairman of Huntsville City School Board of Education. In the 1990s, the grass field was replaced with artificial turf and a new track replaced the original asphalt track. Milton Frank Stadium was the home of the Alabama Hawks of the Continental Football League during the team's two years of affiliation with that league in 1968–1969. Since 2008, the stadium has been the home field for the Tennessee Valley Tigers, a women's American football t ...
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Redstone Arsenal
Redstone Arsenal is a United States Army base adjacent to Huntsville, Alabama in the Wheeler National Wildlife Refuge. A census-designated place in Madison County, Alabama, United States, it is part of the Huntsville-Decatur Combined Statistical Area. The Arsenal is a host to over 75 tenant agencies including the United States Department of Defense, Department of Defense (DoD), United States Department of Justice, Department of Justice (DOJ), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and NASA's largest field center, the Marshall Space Flight Center. The Arsenal today contains a government and contractor workforce that averages 36,000 to 40,000 personnel daily. The base has benefited from decisions by the Defense Base Realignment and Closure Commission and has a residential population of 837 as of 2020. Established during World War II as a Chemical weapon, chemical manufacturing facility, in the immediate post-war era the Arsenal was used for research and development by Nazi Ge ...
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Parks And Greenways In Huntsville
An extensive collection of parks and greenways exists in Huntsville, Alabama for the public's recreational use. Parks Parks within Huntsville city limits The city of Huntsville currently has 57 parks which cover over 3,000 acres of land. Proposed parks *Capshaw Road Park *Zierdt Road Park Current greenways , there are 9 greenways with of trail. Aldridge Creek Greenway Aldridge Creek Greenway is a 103.55-acre greenway consisting of a walking and biking trail in South Huntsville that runs along Aldridge Creek connecting Ken Johnston Park to Ditto Landing and the Tennessee River. The greenway runs north along Aldridge Creek from the main trailhead for 1.25 miles to the sidewalk on the west side of Bailey Cove Road just north of Country Lane Drive and south to the entrance of Ditto Landing, about 3.5 miles. The address of the park is 1100 Mountain Gap Road at Ken Johnston Park just west of Bailey Cove Road. Parking is also available on the south end of the greenway at Ditto Land ...
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Huntsville Botanical Garden
The Huntsville Botanical Garden is a botanical garden located at 4747 Bob Wallace Avenue/Sparkman Drive, Bob Wallace Avenue, Huntsville, Alabama, near the U.S. Space & Rocket Center. It is open year-round for a fee. The garden is ranked third on the list of Alabama's top paid tourist attractions, receiving 353,841 visitors in 2018. History The idea for the creation of a botanical garden in Huntsville was first proposed by fourteen people in December 1979. In January 1980, the Huntsville-Madison County Botanical Garden Society was founded and held its first official meeting. The members of the new society persistently attended City Council meetings and politely asked for funding until they were offered 35 acres and three years to raise $200,000, which the city said that it would match. The funding goal was met in just six months. In January 1983, it was decided that the gardens would be built on property leased to the city from the Alabama Space Science Commission. In late 198 ...
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