Gallery: Downtown Hanceville

Hanceville is known regionally as home to Wallace State Community College which has over 40 buildings spread across a campus of over 300 acres. One of the newer buildings is the Burrow Center for the Fine and Performing Arts.

A Downtown Revitalization Committee was formed by the mayor and city council in about 2014-15, and the results are impressive including murals found on just about every available brick wall.

Just outside of Hanceville, The Shrine of the Most Blessed Sacrament at the Our Lady of Angels Monastery sits on a strip of land between the curves of a big creek. As you probably already know, it’s home of the Poor Clares of Perpetual Adoration Franciscan nuns.

Hanceville is about halfway between Huntsville and Birmingham just a few miles from I-65. It would be logical to combine a visit to Hanceville with a visit to the Ave Maria Grotto and other historic, shopping or recreational places in the Cullman area as I did. Or, perhaps combine it with a trip to the covered bridges in neighboring Blount County.

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