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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIXR_muscle-shoals-canal_Killen-AL.html
Lock Six, headquarters of Muscle Shoals Canal, was located 1.3 miles south of here. An 1836 attempt to build a bypass canal around the shoals proved unsuccessful. On November 10, 1890 the canal from Rogersville to Florence was successfully complet…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIWS_walnut-street-historic-district_Florence-AL.html
Walnut Street began as a residential area in the national economic boom of the 1880s and 1890s and continued its development through the 1920s. Industries and businesses grew in Florence, the population of the city increased, and business and prof…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIWQ_cherry-street-historic-district_Florence-AL.html
Placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1997, this district contains 52 structures, most of which were built after 1900. Cherry Street was laid out in 1818 near the east boundary of Florence. Pulitzer Prize winner Thomas Sigismund St…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIWO_sweetwater_Florence-AL.html
Home of Major John Brahan, veteran War of 1812.Major General, Alabama Militia, who owned 4,000 acres here. Built of bricks made on the place, marble mantels imported from Italy, boxwood hedge from London. Named for spring nearby.Federal and Confed…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIWN_florence-cemetery_Florence-AL.html
When the city was surveyed this land described as "outside the city limits" was designated as the burying grounds for the new town. It contains the graves of early settlers, including a son and brother of Ferdinand Sannoner, Surveyor of Florence, …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIWM_soldiers-rest_Florence-AL.html
This area is the military cemetery for Confederate Soldiers. After an 1862 skirmish in the streets of Florence, it was used to bury casualties until the end of the Civil War. Many unknown Confederates and a few unknown Union soldiers rest here. Af…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIQQ_homer-givens_Florence-AL.html
The home of Homer Givens, America's first hero in World War I was located .4 of a mile north of this intersection. Following a bloody two-hour battle on November 1, 1917 Corporal Givens stood alone after his comrades had fallen. He then managed to…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIQO_wilson-family-cemetery-19th-century-slave-cemetery-19th-century_Florence-AL.html
Side AIn 1818 three Wilson brothers John, Matthew and Samuel, came from Virginia to purchase large farms in this area. The plantations of John and Matthew joined near this cemetery. All three brothers and their families are buried here. Inscriptio…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIQN_mountain-tom-clark_Florence-AL.html
The notorious outlaw gang leader who boasted that no one would ever run over Tom Clark lies buried near the center of Tennessee Street where now all who pass by do run over him.In 1872, Clark, who terrorized helpless citizens during the Civil War,…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMIQM_wood-avenue-church-of-christ_Florence-AL.html
In 1886 a group of Christians began meeting in the home of Susan Thrasher on the northeast corner of Court and Tuscaloosa Streets, for the next four years the group assembled in various rented places until it obtained its own building. The move wa…