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McFarland Park is also the location of the Florence Harbor and Marina. [41] While serving as host to several events throughout the year, the park is also equipped with a playground, numerous picnic shelters, campgrounds, soccer fields, baseball fields, a disc golf course, a golf driving range, and lighted walking trails.
McFarland Heights, a neighborhood in Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017 as a historic district. [ 1 ] According to the Alabama Historical Commission : "McFarland Heights Historic District in Florence, Lauderdale County, is located on a bluff overlooking the Tennessee River .
Florence: 20: Old Natchez Trace (310-2A) Old Natchez Trace (310-2A) November 7, 1976 : 15 miles northwest of Florence on State Route 20: Florence: 1,250-foot segment of the Natchez Trace, both paved and unpaved. [5] 21
Brantley: Confederate Veterans Memorial Park, privately owned [77] Demopolis: Confederate Park is the town square named so in 1923 at the request of UDC. Florence: McFarland Park and Recreation Area, named for Confederate Maj. Robert McFarland [88] Greenville: Confederate Park (1910) Marbury: Confederate Memorial Park. The site operated as the ...
The Sannoner Historic District is a historic district in Florence, Alabama. The district lies between downtown Florence and the University of North Alabama and is named for Ferdinand Sannoner, who surveyed the new town in 1818. In the first half of the 19th century, many wealthy merchants, planters, and lawyers built their homes in the ...
The Wilson Park Houses are a group of three historic homes in Florence, Alabama. Built as upper-class residences between 1890 and 1918, the houses are adjacent to Wilson Park, laid out as a public space upon the city's founding and later renamed for President Woodrow Wilson. Two of the houses came to be owned by Hiram Kennedy Douglass, who upon ...
The Rosenbaum House is a single-family house designed by architect Frank Lloyd Wright and built for Stanley and Mildred Rosenbaum in Florence, Alabama. A noted example of his Usonian house concept, it is the only Wright building in Alabama, [2] and is one of only 26 pre-World War II Usonian houses. Wright scholar John Sergeant called it "the ...
The W. C. Handy Music Festival is held annually in Florence, Alabama, sponsored by the Music Preservation Society, Inc., in honor of Florence native W. C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues." The non-profit Music Preservation Society was formed in 1982, with the mission to preserve, present, and promote the musical heritage of Northwest Alabama.