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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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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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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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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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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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Research led by Nancy Gonce; research assistance and additional photography by Amy Privette.