Taking advantage of being in the Birmingham, Alabama metro area, the city provides a excellent variety of 5 different parks. Walking trails, ball fields and playgrounds scatter the area of the parks for the publics delight.
Alabaster is established in the area of
Shelby County (
Central Region) along Highway 119, placed between
Birmingham and
Clanton. The area gives the city a small town feel with a large town,
Birmingham nearby.
The city started off as not a city at all. After the Revolutionary War many of the people in battle decided to come to this area. With more people arriving every day, a petition was filed on February 23 1953, which it was officially incorporated as a city of Alabama.