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| | Welcome to Colbert County |
 | | A cluster of distinctive cities, Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, Tuscumbia, and neighboring Florence, grew to create a diverse tapestry against which history is still unfolding. |
 | | Cotton, grown in the 1830s in fertile farmlands of the Tennessee Valley was exported along the first railway established west of the Alleghenies and Alabamas first college, LaGrange, was chartered. |
 | | Americas First Lady of Courage, Helen Keller, was born in Tuscumbia in 1880 and her home, Ivy Green, is visited annually by more than 50,000 people from all over the world. |
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