Wood Avenue Historic District
The Wood Avenue Historic District is a historic district in Florence, Alabama. The residential neighborhood was primarily developed after Reconstruction, although five houses date from before the Civil War.Places of Interest
Highlights include Flowers Hall and Cherry Street Historic District.
Flowers Hall
Sports venue
CB&S Bank Arena at Flowers Hall, built in 1972, is a 3,000 seat multipurpose arena located in Florence, Alabama. It is used primarily for basketball and volleyball, and is the home of the University of North Alabama Lions basketball and volleyball teams.
Cherry Street Historic District
Geographical marker
Photo: Spyder Monkey, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Cherry Street Historic District is a historic district in Florence, Alabama. Florence was founded in 1818 and quickly prospered as a cotton shipping port on the Tennessee River, but did not see its greatest growth until the latter part of the 19th century.
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.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Florence and Mars Hill.
Florence
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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.
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 2½ miles north of Wood Avenue Historic District.
Sheffield
Town
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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 4 miles south of Wood Avenue Historic District.
Wood Avenue Historic District
- Type: Park
- Categories: recreation area and historic site
- Location: Lauderdale, Alabama, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
34.81648° or 34° 48′ 59″ northLongitude
-87.67753° or 87° 40′ 39″ westElevation
600 feet (183 metres)Open location code
866JR88C+HXOpenStreetMap ID
node 358985647OpenStreetMap feature
historic=districtOpenStreetMap feature
leisure=parkGeoNames ID
4098345
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In Other Languages
“Wood Avenue Historic District” goes by many names.
- French: “District historique de Wood Avenue”
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