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Tuscumbia is a city in, and the county seat of Colbert County, Alabama, United States. The population was 9,054 at the 2020 census, [6] and was estimated to be 9,169 in 2023. [7] The city is part of The Shoals metropolitan area. Tuscumbia was the hometown of Helen Keller, who lived at Ivy Green.
Colbert County (/ ˈ k ɒ l b ər t /) [1] is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. As of the 2020 census the county's population was 57,227. [ 2 ] The county seat is Tuscumbia . [ 3 ]
This is a list of plantations and/or plantation houses in the U.S. state of Alabama that are National Historic Landmarks, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage, or are otherwise significant for their history, association with significant events or people, or their architecture and design.
Johnson's Woods (also known as the G. W. Carroll House) is a historic plantation house in Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States. The house was built in 1837 on land purchased by George W. Carroll in 1828. A settler from Maryland, Carroll became the county's wealthiest planter by 1850.
The Florence–Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area, commonly known as "The Shoals", is a metropolitan statistical area in northwestern Alabama including the cities of Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, and Sheffield, and the counties of Lauderdale and Colbert. The 2020 Census population for the Shoals is 148,779 and an additional 410,000 commute ...
It’s OK if you don’t know that Alabama’s state bird is the Northern flicker or that it’s home to 32 percent of the U.S. snail population and the only riverboat mail route in the country.
Other buildings in the district include the First Presbyterian Church (built 1824), St. John's Episcopal Church (built 1852), First Baptist Church (built 1903), and the Julian House (built in Cherokee and moved to Tuscumbia in the 1850s). [2] The district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973. [1]
The Oaks (also known as Abraham Ricks Plantation) is a historic residence near Tuscumbia in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. Ricks came to North Alabama from Halifax, North Carolina, in the early 1820s.