This description of Florence, Alabama comes from an advertisement placed by the Cypress Land Company in area newspapers on March 20th, 1818: “The site of Florence is an elevated plain…dry, commanding and beautiful…Timber is abundant and of great variety: and the streams are almost a continued series of falls…(and) the soil is capable of sustaining a very dense population.”

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2000

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Government and Government Service 2000 and Beyond

Future President Donald Trump visited in September, 2005. President George W. Bush visits in August, 2011. The City of Florence officially celebrated its 200th Birthday on March 12, 2018 in Wilson Park in downtown Florence.     Program from Bicentennial Birthday Party   Bicentennial Proclamation and Flag Presentation from Congressman Mo Brooks     Bicentennial Proclamation from […]

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1950

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Government and Government Service 1950 to 1999

Vice President Alben W. Barkley visits in June, 1952. A 1953 graduate of West Point, Gen. Arthur E, Brown Jr., culminated a 36-year military career as Director of the Army Staff (1983-1987), and Vice-Chief of Staff of the U.S. Army (1987-1989) in 1989.  Brown has been elected in the Florence City Walk of Honor. Presidential […]

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1900

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Government and Government Service 1900 to 1949

President William McKinley visits in May, 1901. Former President Theodore Roosevelt visited in 1910. The Federal Courthouse was built in 1913 and housed the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Alabama, the U.S. Post Office, and other federal offices.  It was built on the former site of the Florence Synodical Female College. The […]

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1850

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Government and Government Service 1850 to 1899

Dred Scott, a slave who served as the hostler in Peter Blow’s Florence Hotel, waged a 14-year legal fight for freedom that resulted in the U.S. Supreme Court’s Dred Scott Decision of 1857, a pivotal event in American history.  Scott has been elected to the Florence City Walk of Honor. The Code of the City […]

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1800

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Government and Government Service 1800 to 1849

Earliest evidence of habitation of the region now called Florence and Lauderdale County Alabama in northwest Alabama is from archaeological sites dating from the Woodland Period, approximately 2,000 years ago.  Native lands were ceded to the United State government.  The Alabama Territory was created from a portion of the Mississippi Territory in 1817. Photos of […]

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