{"id":8,"date":"2026-03-15T20:13:20","date_gmt":"2026-03-15T20:13:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/honeyhole.wpenginepowered.com\/?page_id=8"},"modified":"2026-04-07T02:14:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T02:14:40","slug":"honey-hole-huntsville","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/thehoneyhole.org\/","title":{"rendered":"Honey Hole Huntsville"},"content":{"rendered":"<section class=\"l-section wpb_row height_medium full_height valign_center with_video with_youtube\"><div id=\"us_bg_video_j67f\" class=\"l-section-video\"><script id=\"us_bg_video_j67f-script\">!function(w){var node = document.getElementById( 'us_bg_video_j67f' );if ( w.innerWidth <= 100 ) { node.remove() }}(window);<\/script><style>@media(max-width:100px){#us_bg_video_j67f{display:none!important}}<\/style><script id=\"youtube_j67f\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\twindow.USYTPlayers = ( window.USYTPlayers || { initYTFunctions: [], optionsYT: [], USYTInited: false } );\r\n\t\t\t\t\twindow.USYTPlayers.initYTFunctions.push( function() {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\tvar player = new YT.Player( \"youtube_j67f\" , {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tvideoId: \"SKtJ1P7xfos\",\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tplayerVars: {\"playlist\":\"SKtJ1P7xfos\",\"autohide\":1,\"autoplay\":1,\"mute\":1,\"controls\":0,\"disablekb\":1,\"enablejsapi\":1,\"fs\":0,\"loop\":1,\"rel\":0,\"showinfo\":0},\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tevents: {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tonReady: function ( e ) {\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\te.target.mute();\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\te.target.playVideo();\r\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\te.target.g.allow = \"autoplay; 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Local anecdotal information suggests that the name Honey Hole became a common moniker for the area then because the locals often mused \u201cthat one could go down in that hole to get some honey.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\">This community grew into one of the most ill-kept and disease-laden communities in Huntsville and became known as a \u201cslum\u201d and the worst among all the blighted areas in the city.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>Newspapers articles during the 1940s and 1950s also indicate that the community was a high crime area, particularly along Depot Street, an extension of Washington Street.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0<span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <\/span><\/span>The Honey Hole community was demolished as part of the Winston Street Urban Renewal Project approved by the federal government on July 10, 1957.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The government also authorized at that time a $1,343,723 loan at 3.75% interest for the urban renewal project.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>The 40-acre, Winston Street area demolished was \u201cbounded by Yarbrough Avenue on the west; by a drainage canal and Patton Street on the north; by the Southern Railroad tracks, Josephine Street and a line west of Meridian Street on the east and by Washington Street and the Southern Railway tracks on the south.\u201d Families were moved out of the neighborhood and the Huntsville Housing Authority began burning the houses down in the Honey Hole community on December 16, 1958.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\"><span class=\"Apple-tab-span\"> <\/span>In 1961, Josephine Street was improved and paved as part of the Lincoln Park housing project.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">\u00a0 <\/span>In this same year, work began on extending and turning Washington Street into four lanes beginning at the Southern Railway tracks in the former Honey Hole community running northward through Ray Street and the Lincoln Park housing project to Hoover Street.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Preserve.Rebrand.Promote.The History of the Honey HoleBased on references from local newspapers, the name \u201cHoney Hole\u201d doesn\u2019t appear to have been a common reference to the community until the early 1950s. Local anecdotal information suggests that the name Honey Hole became a common moniker for the area then because the locals often mused \u201cthat one could...","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehoneyhole.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehoneyhole.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehoneyhole.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehoneyhole.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thehoneyhole.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thehoneyhole.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thehoneyhole.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}