Point 11: Historic Marker, former site of St. Bartley Primitive Baptist Church

Black Business District – Historic Marker 

Location:  200 Holmes Avenue NW

The cornerstones of education, entrepreneurship, and economic independence bore fruit in the early twentieth century. Restaurants, barber shops, clothing stores, churches, theaters, created a vibrant center of black culture and commerce on Church Street. Urban renewal forced many of these businesses to relocate west or north of downtown in the 1960s.

Photo: Church Street Business District

Caption: Black Huntsvillians embraced entrepreneurship and built the Church Street Business District, which was demolished by urban renewal