CIRCA 1900 — Beginning at the Southern Railway depot at the foot of Court street the line ran:
Shoals History Lessons
Learn all about our area's local history with these short history lessons.
Studying an 1837 map of Florence, Alabama we noticed, along what is now West Irvine, a large plot of...
In the early months of 1890, a valuable mineral spring was discovered in East Florence. These waters...
Why is the North Florence intersection called “seven points” when there are only 6 roads intersectin...
Florence Packing Company was founded during the construction of Wilson Dam out of a need for sanitar...
Gravelly Springs near Waterloo is the spot where the largest cavalry force in the Western Hemisphere...
Sweetwater Mansion in Florence, Alabama (also known as the Weeden Home) is a plantation house design...
Thomas J. Phillips, the “Merchant Prince” of East Florence, was President of the East Florence Bank,...