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Cordova was originally a settlement on the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River called "Dent" or "Dent's Place." The city was dubbed "Cordova" by Captain Benjamin M. Long in 1859. He named the city after a city in Mexico where he was stationed during the Mexican–American War. Long himself opened a mercantile shop in the city and helped ...
Google Maps is available as a mobile app for the Android and iOS mobile operating systems. The first mobile version of Google Maps (then known as Google Local for Mobile) was launched in beta in November 2005 for mobile platforms supporting J2ME. [191] [192] [193] It was released as Google Maps for Mobile in 2006. [194]
A Google Maps Camera Car showcased on Google campus in Mountain View, California in November 2010. The United States was the first country to have Google Street View images and was the only country with images for over a year following introduction of the service on May 25, 2007. Early on, most locations had a limited number of views, usually ...
Alabama School of Fine Arts; Altamont School; Banks Academy [35] Carver High School; Cornerstone Christian Schools [36] Glen Iris Baptist School [37] Holy Family Cristo Rey High School; Huffman High School; Islamic Academy of Alabama [38] Jackson-Olin High School; John Carroll Catholic High School; Ramsay High School; Rock City Preparatory ...
Google Street View is a technology featured in Google Maps and Google Earth that provides interactive panoramas from positions along many streets in the world. It was launched in 2007 in several cities in the United States, and has since expanded to include all of the country's major and minor cities, as well as the cities and rural areas of many other countries worldwide.
The Gilchrist House was a historic farmhouse near Cordova in Walker County, Alabama.Built when Alabama was still a part of the Mississippi Territory, it was considered by architectural scholars as one of the older surviving houses in Alabama and the oldest structure in the central and western area of the state.
U.S. Route 78 (US 78) is a major east–west U.S. Highway across the central part of Alabama.It is internally designated State Route 4 (SR 4) by the Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT), though the only section of SR 4 that is signed is along portions mainly west of Jasper.
In the afternoon hours of April 27, 2011, a large and long-tracked EF4 tornado moved across Central Alabama, devastating several communities along a 127.8-mile (205.7 km) path, including Cordova and Blountsville. The tornado killed 13 and had a maximum width of 1,408 yards (0.800 mi).