Florence, Alabama
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 Location in County and Alabama
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| Basic data | |
| Foundation : | January 7, 1826 |
| State : | United States |
| State : | Alabama |
| County : | Lauderdale County |
| Coordinates : | 34 ° 50 ′ N , 87 ° 40 ′ W |
| Time zone : | Central ( UTC − 6 / −5 ) |
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Inhabitants : - Metropolitan Area : |
39,959 (as of 2016) 146,534 (as of 2016) |
| Population density : | 618.6 inhabitants per km 2 |
| Area : | 64.8 km 2 (approx. 25 mi 2 ) thereof 64.6 km 2 (approx. 25 mi 2 ) land |
| Height : | 167 m |
| Postcodes : | 35630-35634 |
| Area code : | +1 256 |
| FIPS : | 01-26896 |
| GNIS ID : | 0118442 |
| Website : | www.ci.florence.al.us |
| Mayor : | Mickey Haddock |
Florence is a city in Lauderdale County in the US state of Alabama , USA . Together with the Tri-Cities Muscle Shoals , Sheffield and Tuscumbia on the opposite side of the Tennessee River , Florence forms the Quad-Cities Metropolitan Region Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area , or The Shoals for short . The metropolitan region's slogan is “ Four Cities, Four Cultures ”.
history
The town was founded and planned in 1818 by Ferdinand Sannoner, an Italian engineer from the Grödner Valley in South Tyrol . Sannoner named the city after Florence , the capital of the Italian region Tuscany .
Culture
Florence was the founding place and first seat of the Florence Alabama Music Enterprises , FAME Studios for short . FAME later moved to a tobacco warehouse in the Muscle Shoals opposite and landed its first nationwide hit in 1962 with Arthur Alexander's single You Better Move On , which established its own studio and music scene as well as the famous "Muscle Shoals Sound". The Muscle Shoals Sound Studio , split off from FAME in 1969, was located in Sheffield .
sons and daughters of the town
- James T. Rapier (1837-1883), politician
- Emmet O'Neal (1853-1922), politician
- Oscar Stanton De Priest (1871–1951), politician
- WC Handy (1873–1958), blues composer
- Sterling Bose (1906–1958), trumpeter of hot jazz and swing
- Dorrit Hoffleit (1907-2007), astronomer
- John William 'Jud' Phillips (1921-1992); Brother of Sam Phillips, founder of Judd Records and co-founder of Sun Records
- Sam Phillips (1923-2003), founder of the Sun Records label
- Bill Yoast (1924-2019), high school football coach
- Autry Inman (1929–1988), country and rockabilly musician
- Ronnie Flippo (* 1937), politician
- Arthur Alexander (1940–1993), soul singer and country soul pioneer (Muscle Shoals Sound)
- Donnie Fritts (1942-2019), country musician and songwriter (Muscle Shoals Sound)
- Jonathan Rosenbaum (* 1943), film critic
- Brett Guthrie (born 1964), politician
- Jenn Rivell (* 1973), actress and former frequent guest on the MTV show Viva La Bam
Web links
Individual evidence
- ^ Richard Younger: Get A Shot of Rhythm & Blues - The Arthur Alexander Story , University of Alabama Press, Tuscaloosa, Alabama 2000, ISBN 0-8173-1024-X . (English)
- ↑ Jud Phillips, 71, Dies; Early Rock Promoter in The New York Times on July 25, 1992.