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Cordova High School was built by the Works Progress Administration in 1938, and the building served the city through the 2007 school year. The current facility was an estimated $14 million project that offers the students of Cordova High a state-of-the-art education experience.
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.
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).
This marks only the second day in history (after April 3, 1974) that there were more than two F5/EF5 tornadoes reported. [45] The tornadoes continued tracking through central Alabama that afternoon and into the early evening hours. A dangerous and destructive tornado struck the city of Cullman, Alabama, at around 3:00 p.m. CDT (20:00 UTC).
During the American Civil War, she was known to be enslaved by Dr. Taylor, according to B. E. Bolser, of Mt. Meigs, Alabama. She married Asbury Moore, who was also a enslaved, and they went to the Gilchrist Place in Cordova, Alabama, together as sharecroppers after the war. Eliza and Asbury had two children together, Asbury died in 1943 and was ...
Dexter Avenue Baptist Church, first church of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. when he began his work as a national civil rights activist, in 1955 with the Montgomery bus boycott in Montgomery Gaineswood in Demopolis Clark Hall in the Gorgas–Manly Historic District on the University of Alabama campus Tannehill Ironworks in Tuscaloosa ...
Cordova, Alabama, U.S. Died: February 4, 2013 ... During his six seasons he posted a 31–32–2 record and engineered one of the biggest wins in school history, ...
The Alabama High School Athletic Association (AHSAA) is the governing body of athletic programs for junior and senior high schools in the U.S. state of Alabama. It conducts state championship competitions in all AHSAA-sanctioned sports.