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Titusville (Birmingham)

Titusville
Birmingham Neighborhood
Country United States
State Alabama
City Birmingham
Coordinates 33°29′38.4″N 86°49′40.8″W / 33.494000°N 86.828000°W / 33.494000; -86.828000Coordinates: 33°29′38.4″N 86°49′40.8″W / 33.494000°N 86.828000°W / 33.494000; -86.828000
Timezone CST (UTC-6)
 - summer (DST) CDT (UTC-5)
ZIP Codes 35211
Area code 205

Titusville /ˈtɪtəsvəl/ is a historic neighborhood in Birmingham, Alabama, United States southeast of Ensley near UAB's campus. It is centered on 6th Avenue South between downtown Birmingham and Elmwood Cemetery. It includes its neighborhood associations with North Titusville, South Titusville, and Woodland Park.

In 1910, Robert Ingersoll Ingalls, Sr. (1882-1951) founded Ingalls Iron Works in Titusville. (He later went on to found Ingalls Shipbuilding in Pascagoula, Mississippi in 1938).

Since the early twentieth century Titusville has been a neighborhood of middle-class African American families, including architect Wallace Rayfield; Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice; Freeman A. Hrabowski III, president of the University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Birmingham mayor William Bell; former Birmingham Mayor Larry Langford; Birmingham city councillor Carole Smitherman; and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Harold Jackson.


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