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The TimesDaily was founded in 1889 as The Florence Times and published its first edition on July 4, 1890. A sister paper, The Tri-Cities Daily , was founded in 1907. [ 4 ] The merger of these two newspapers in 1967, [ 5 ] which published for a time as The Florence Times—Tri-Cities Daily , gives The TimesDaily its distinctive name.
Alabama Republican: Huntsville 1816 [11] Alabama Time-Piece: Aldrich: 1895 1902 [12] American Star [13] Sheffield Baptist Leader [13] Birmingham Birmingham Iron Age: Birmingham 1874 [14] Birmingham Post-Herald [15] Birmingham Ceased in 2005 Cahawba Press and Alabama Intelligencer: 1819 [11] Geneva County Reaper: Geneva: 1901 Ceased in 2024 ...
Location of Lauderdale County in Alabama. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Lauderdale County, Alabama. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States. Latitude and longitude coordinates are ...
The Florence Morning News was purchased by Thomson Newspapers, later The Thomson Corporation in December 1981. [4] Thomson worked to expand the newspaper from a Florence-focused newspaper to more regional coverage. It was extensively redesigned in 1992, and again in 1998, to emphasize coverage of the nine-county Pee Dee region of South Carolina.
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.
Sweetwater Mansion received its name from the creek and was first occupied by Brahan's son-in-law Robert M. Patton, a post-Civil War governor of Alabama, who completed the mansion in 1835. The house was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1976.
Development of the neighborhood began in earnest in the 1890s, although the oldest house in the district dates from 1870. Florence's first economic boom after the Civil War began in the 1880s, and the newly minted upper-middle class began building homes to the east of older residential sections, such as Wood Avenue and the Sannoner District.
Alabama's first state organization of African American newspapers was the Alabama Colored Press Association, which was founded by the editors of nine papers in 1887. [2] However, the association ceased to function after two years, due to many of its key members having been driven out of the state by racist violence. [ 2 ]