Birmingham Then and Now® (Then and Now)Part of the 4 miliion selling trademark series from Anova Books a vivid historical tour of Birmingham, with the same view photographed today, from a great local author. A late arrival on the Southern landscape, the city of Birmingham was not incorporated until after the Civil War. In fact, from 1820 to 1871, what is now Birmingham was known as the hamlet of Elyton, a small crossroads set in the rolling foothills of the Appalachian Mountains where