Sweetwater Creek
Sweetwater Creek is a stream in Lauderdale, Alabama. Sweetwater Creek is situated nearby to the locality East Florence, as well as near the area Downtown Florence Historic District.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Rogers Department Store and Southall Drugs.
Rogers Department Store
Heritage site
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Rogers Department Store was a department store chain based in Florence, Alabama. Founded in 1894, the company grew to include locations across the Tennessee Valley.
Southall Drugs
Heritage site
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Southall Drugs is a historic commercial building in Florence, Alabama. It was built in 1900 to house the pharmacy of Charles Morton Southall. The pharmacy operated until 1979, and was renovated in 1982 to have loft apartments on the second floor and retail on the ground floor.
Downtown Florence Historic District
Geographical marker
Photo: Themidnite, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Florence Downtown Historic District is a historic district in Florence, Alabama. Florence was founded in 1818 by the Cypress Land Company, who counted among its trustees Creek War General John Coffee, future Governor of Alabama Thomas Bibb, early Huntsville settler LeRoy Pope, and future United States Senator and Supreme Court Justice John McKinley.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Florence and Sheffield.
Florence
Photo: Americasroof, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Florence is a city in and the county seat of Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States, in the state's northwestern corner, and had a population of 40,184 in the 2020 census.
Sheffield
Village
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Sheffield is a city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area. The population was 9,403 at the 2020 census, and was estimated to be 9,307 in 2023. Sheffield is situated 3½ miles southwest of Sweetwater Creek.
Mars Hill
Hamlet
Mars Hill is a former unincorporated community that is now a neighborhood of the city of Florence in Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States. The community contains the campus of Mars Hill Bible School. Mars Hill is situated 3½ miles north of Sweetwater Creek.
Sweetwater Creek
- Type: Stream
- Category: body of water
- Location: Lauderdale, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.79814° or 34° 47′ 53″ northLongitude
-87.65586° or 87° 39′ 21″ westElevation
420 feet (128 metres)Open location code
866JQ8XV+7MGeoNames ID
4092612
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