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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
Oda Faulconer (1884–1943), lawyer and judge and president of the Bank of Italy, San Fernando, and West Adams State Bank, Los Angeles; Don Fedderson (1913–1994), TV writer, producer, creator of the sitcoms My Three Sons and Family Affair [71] Al Ferguson (1888–1971), actor; Helen Ferguson (1901–1977), actress
The eight room home was built of bricks manufactured by Brahan's slaves on the site of Sweetwater Creek which lay just below the house. Sweetwater Mansion received its name from the creek and was first occupied by Brahan's son-in-law Robert M. Patton , a post-Civil War governor of Alabama, who completed the mansion in 1835.
The Florence Downtown Historic District is a historic district in Florence, Alabama. Florence was founded in 1818 by the Cypress Land Company, who counted among its trustees Creek War General John Coffee , future Governor of Alabama Thomas Bibb , early Huntsville settler LeRoy Pope , and future United States Senator and Supreme Court Justice ...
Florence is located along the Tennessee River and is home to the University of North Alabama, the oldest public college in the state. Florence is located about 70 miles west of Huntsville, Alabama , via US-72 , and about 115 miles northwest of Birmingham, Alabama .
The district was listed on the Alabama Register of Landmarks and Heritage and the National Register of Historic Places in 1978. [2] Its boundaries were increased in 1996 and 1997. [ 1 ]
Cherry St. between Hermitage Dr. and E. Tombigbee St., Florence, Alabama Coordinates 34°48′29″N 87°40′21″W / 34.80806°N 87.67250°W / 34.80806; -87
Development of the neighborhood began in earnest in the 1890s, although the oldest house in the district dates from 1870. Florence's first economic boom after the Civil War began in the 1880s, and the newly minted upper-middle class began building homes to the east of older residential sections, such as Wood Avenue and the Sannoner District.