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32-710: The Red Mountain Expressway Cut , also known as the Red Mountain Geological Cut , is a section of Red Mountain that was blasted and removed in the 1960s to allow the Red Mountain Expressway to enter downtown Birmingham, Alabama . This highway links Birmingham with its southern suburbs of Homewood , Mountain Brook , and Vestavia Hills . It has spurred suburban growth towards the south of Birmingham. This section also provides

64-541: A leading Welsh Premiership rugby union team, Llandovery RFC , nicknamed The Drovers, active as such since at least 1877 and a founder member of the Welsh Rugby Union. It has successful junior and youth sections. A number of former players have gone on to represent Wales (and some other nations) in international rugby. Home games are played at its ground in Church Bank. Llandovery Junior Football Club has

96-652: A membership of over 70 from Llandovery and its surrounding area. It provides coaching and competitive scope for all aged 6 to 16 years. The club currently has an Under 14 team in the Carmarthenshire Junior League, and Under 11 and Under 8 teams playing in the Carmarthen Mini Football League. A Llandovery Golf Club, founded in 1910, survived until the onset of the Second World War. Golfing now takes place on

128-508: A natural promontory for Birmingham's radio and television broadcast stations, and a setting for noteworthy private restaurant "The Club." In 1970, the "Red Mountain Expressway" was completed after many years of work cutting through Red Mountain. This highway linked Birmingham with its southern suburbs and spurred suburban growth towards the south of Birmingham. The resultant cut exposed geological strata spanning millions of years, including

160-567: Is twinned with Pluguffan in Brittany , France. Llandovery stands at the junction of the main A40 and A483 roads. Llandovery railway station is on the Heart of Wales line , with services in the direction of Swansea and of Shrewsbury . In date-of-birth order. See also Category:People from Llandovery The Dolaucothi Gold Mines are located 10 miles (16 km) away near Pumpsaint on

192-419: Is Redmont Park, which was developed in the 1920s by Robert Jemison. It was the home to Birmingham's early bankers and iron and steel industrialists. It became one of Birmingham's most prominent neighborhoods, home to the majority of the multimillion-dollar residences and estates that are located within the city proper. The prestigious Altamont School , a private school well known for its arts and science programs,

224-532: Is a market town and community in Carmarthenshire , Wales . It lies on the River Tywi and at the junction of the A40 and A483 roads, about 25 miles (40 km) north-east of Carmarthen , 27 miles (43 km) north of Swansea and 21 miles (34 km) west of Brecon . The name of the town derives from Llan ymlith y dyfroedd , meaning "church enclosure amid the waters", i. e. between

256-493: Is located in the neighborhood, as well as Saint Rose Academy , a Catholic parochial school run by Dominican sisters. A science museum, the Red Mountain Museum, was opened on the slope adjacent to the cut in 1971. Interpretive signage was installed along one of the terraces of the cut and guardrails and fencing installed to allow museum visitors to inspect the exposed rock close-up. From the late 1970s until 1994,

288-564: Is the earliest in the Silurian period of geological time. In the small central market place stands Llandovery Town Hall (1857–1858) by the architect Richard Kyke Penson. This was designed in the Italianate style with a courtroom over an open market. Behind are police cells with iron grilles; entry to the old courtroom (now a library) is via a door on the ground floor of the tower. The 12th-century Grade I listed St Mary's Church in

320-793: The McWane Science Center which opened on July 11, 1998. In 1987 the Red Mountain Expressway Cut was granted National Natural Landmark status by the National Park Service . Deemed unsafe because of the potential for rock slides, the interpretive trail has since been closed to the public. The extensive Red Mountain Museum collection is now stored at the McWane Science Center and once again available to scientists. As of October 2007,

352-626: The A482. The road follows an original Roman road to Llanio fort . Llandovery lies just north of Brecon Beacons National Park and Fforest Fawr Geopark , whose geological heritage is celebrated. These designated landscapes are centred on Bannau Sir Gâr or the Carmarthen Fans , themselves part of the Black Mountain extending north towards the town, as Mynydd Myddfai and Mynydd Bach Trecastell . The village of Myddfai lies within

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384-543: The Llandovery College 9-hole course. An electoral ward of the same name exists. This covers Llandovery and stretches to the north. The total ward population taken at the 2011 Census was 2,689. The community is bordered by those of Llanfair-ar-y-bryn , Myddfai , Llanwrda , and Cilycwm , all being in Carmarthenshire. As of May 2019 , the mayor of Llandovery is Councillor Louise Wride. Llandovery

416-437: The Red Mountain Museum was quite active in paleontological research, collecting fossil vertebrates and invertebrates from hundreds of localities throughout the state. The staff collected and cataloged tens of thousands of fossils, including many Cretaceous mosasaurs , Pleistocene ground sloths , and primitive Eocene archaeocete whales . Paleontologists , zoologists , geologists and archeologists once employed at

448-432: The Red Mountain Museum, either as paid staff or as volunteers, include its first curator Whitman Cross, Gorden L. Bell, Jr. , James P. Lamb, Winston C. Lancaster, Caitlín R. Kiernan , Susan Henson, and Amy Sheldon. The Red Mountain Museum later formed a partnership with a nearby children's science museum, The Discovery Place, to form "Discovery 2000", which then moved away from Red Mountain to downtown Birmingham and became

480-633: The Tywi and the Afon Brân just upstream of their confluence. A smaller watercourse, the Bawddwr, runs through and under the town. The Roman fort at Llanfair Hill to the north-east of the modern town was known to the Romans as Alabum . It was built around AD 50–60 as part of a strategy for the conquest of Wales . A Roman road heads across Mynydd Bach Trecastell to the south-east of Llandovery bound for

512-536: The University president. As the steel furnaces modernized, labor cost rose, and geological faults in the local ore mines made the ore harder to reach, it became more economical to purchase pelletized ore from distant sources than to continue mining ore from Red Mountain. The last ore mine on Red Mountain closed in 1962 and was operated by US Steel. The last ore mine in the Birmingham district closed in 1972. It

544-467: The abandoned mine sites served as the locations for large estates and upper-class developments which offered cool breezes and a panoramic view of the growing industrial city from above the constant layer of thick black smoke. Alex Harvey "Rick" Woodward's home is in this area along Altamont Road. His home is now owned and maintained by the University of Alabama at Birmingham and used as the residence of

576-423: The army of King Henry IV on a "wild goose chase", under the pretence of leading them to a secret rebel camp and an ambush of Glyndŵr's forces. King Henry lost patience with him, exposed the charade and had him half hanged, disembowelled in front of his own eyes, beheaded and quartered – the quarters salted and dispatched to other Welsh towns for public display. The design of the statue, by Toby and Gideon Petersen,

608-497: The former Red Mountain Museum building had been demolished, but plans for the site are unknown. The fantasy writer and paleontologist Caitlín R. Kiernan has used Red Mountain, particularly the area west of U.S. Route 31 and the Red Mountain cut, as the setting for four of her novels – Silk (1998), Threshold (2001), Low Red Moon (2003), and, to a much lesser extent, Murder of Angels (2004). The geography and geology of

640-645: The fort of Brecon Gaer . Another heads down the Towy valley for Carmarthen , whilst a third makes for the goldmines at Dolaucothi . Attractions in the town include the remains of the Norman Llandovery Castle , built in 1110. It was almost immediately captured by the Welsh and changed hands between them and the Normans until the reign of King Edward I of England in the late 13th century. The castle

672-705: The mountain was integral to the plot of Threshold , and in a chapbook on the novel ( Trilobite: The Writing of Threshold ; Subterranean Press, 2003), Kiernan includes an afterword describing the geological history and paleontology of the Paleozoic strata of Red Mountain. Fannie Flagg 's 2010 novel I Still Dream About You features Red Mountain prominently. Llandovery 51°59′45″N 3°47′50″W  /  51.99583°N 3.79722°W  / 51.99583; -3.79722 Llandovery ( / l æ n ˈ d ʌ v r i / ; Welsh : Llanymddyfri ; Welsh pronunciation: [ɬanəmˈðəvrɪ] )

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704-579: The north of the town is among the largest medieval churches in Carmarthenshire. The Memorial Chapel in Stryd y Bont was built as a memorial to the hymnist William Williams Pantycelyn . The town's comprehensive school , Ysgol Pantycelyn, with about 300 pupils, was closed on 31 August 2013 and merged with Ysgol Tre-Gib in Ffairfach to form Ysgol Bro Dinefwr . The town has an independent day and boarding school, Llandovery College . Llandovery has

736-554: The other from 22nd Street. Eventually the tunnel idea was abandoned due to its high cost and extended amount of time it would have taken. The Red Mountain Expressway Cut was built instead. Red Mountain (Birmingham) Red Mountain is also home to Red Mountain Park , one of the largest urban parks in the United States at 1,500 acres (6.1 km ). The proximity of Red Mountain's ore to nearby sources of coal and limestone

768-603: The red ore seam that spurred Birmingham's development. A new species of Lower Silurian (middle Llandovery ) phacopsid trilobite , Acaste birminghamensis , was first collected from exposures on Red Mountain There are many neighborhoods that are located along the 33 miles of Red Mountain, that stretches from Sparks Gap on the southwest to Trussville in the northeast. Some of these are Raimund, Muscoda, Lipscomb, Wenonah, Ishkooda, Greensprings, Irondale, Ruffner, and Trussville. Located just southeast of downtown Birmingham, on Red Mountain,

800-529: The route for U.S. Route 31 (US 31) to the south (the Montgomery Highway) and US 280 to the southeast. The resultant cut exposes geological strata spanning millions of years (150 million years of geological time within 650 feet or 200 metres of exposure), including the red ore seam that spurred Birmingham's development. A new species of Lower Silurian (middle Llandovery epoch ) phacopsid trilobite , Acaste birminghamensis ,

832-489: Was 1,709. The town has a theatre (Llandovery Theatre), a heritage centre , a private school ( Llandovery College ) and a tourist information and heritage centre, which houses exhibitions on the Tonn Press, the area's droving history, and the 19th-century geologist Sir Roderick Impey Murchison , whose work here resulted in the name " Llandovery " being given to rocks of a certain age across the world. The Llandovery epoch

864-465: Was again being renewed but this time on a commercial level. Under the leadership of such men as Debardeleben, Sloss, and Woodward the mining of iron ore along Red Mountain began again. The mountain developed a symbolic place as the source of wealth in the region and was even portrayed as a character in pageants sponsored by the steel companies in their company towns . In the Altamont and Redmont areas

896-728: Was chosen after a national competition. It was funded by the National Lottery and the Arts Council of Wales . According to folklore, the Physicians of Myddfai practised in the area in the 13th century. The Bank of the Black Ox, one of the first Welsh banks, was established by a wealthy cattle drover . The original bank building was part of the King's Head Inn. It later became part of Lloyds Bank . The population in 1841

928-565: Was first collected from exposures on Red Mountain. Named for the city, the new species was published in May 1972. The cut was designated a National Natural Landmark in 1987. One of the original ideas proposed for linking Birmingham to its southern neighbors was the Red Mountain Tunnel project. This was seriously considered by the city and state highway engineers. Two alternate routes were proposed, one starting at 18th Street and

960-666: Was the Pyne Mine off Highway 150 near Bessemer and was operated by the Woodward Iron Company. In 1938, the giant cast-iron statue of the Roman god of the forge, Vulcan , which represented Birmingham in the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair was put on display atop a sandstone tower built by the Works Progress Administration . This is the world's largest cast-iron statue. Red Mountain serves as

992-660: Was the impetus to develop and promote the Birmingham District as an industrial site. The mining of iron ore along Red Mountain began in the early 1860s as the Civil War created a demand for iron necessary to sustain the Confederate war efforts. The Union army destroyed the Oxmoor, Irondale and Tannehill furnaces in 1865 and at this point mining stopped along Red Mountain. After the Civil War the production of iron

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1024-455: Was used by King Henry IV while on a sortie into Wales, when he executed Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan in the market place. It was later attacked by the forces of Owain Glyndŵr in 1403. A 16-foot-high (4.9 m) stainless-steel statue to Llywelyn ap Gruffydd Fychan was unveiled in 2001 on the north side of Llandovery Castle, overlooking the place of his execution 600 years earlier. He had led

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