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| | Florence, Alabama - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
 | | Florence is the largest and principal city of the Florence - Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Statistical Area known as "The Shoals" (which includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia metropolitan areas and Colbert and Lauderdale counties). |
 | | Florence was surveyed for the Cypress Land Company in 1818 by Italian surveyor Ferdinand Sannoner whom named it for his favorite city, Tuscany's famous capital, Florence - which also had a prominent river, the Arno, and was incorporated in 1826. |
 | | Florence is the birthplace of W.C. Handy, the "Father of the Blues," as well as of pioneering record producer Sam Phillips, whom discovered Elvis Presley. |
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