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Cordova, Alabama. Counties or equivalents associated with this area: Walker. Associated ZIP codes: 35550.
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Cordova is in Walker County, Alabama.
Region: North Alabama
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An Alabama man has been charged with setting fire to a Mississippi police department that has faced protests in the months since an officer fatally shot a 1-...
Alabama Marine Resources officials say several years of poor water conditions have contributed to a significant decline in oyster numbers. Because of the dec...
Cordova, on the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River, was first a settlement called Dent or Dent's Place. In 1859 Captain Benjamin McFarland Long renamed it Cordova after a town in Mexico where he had served under Robert E. Lee in the Mexican War. Long opened a store and gave land to draw industry, and two railroads, today's BNSF and Norfolk Southern, reached the town in 1886. Coal mining has been part of the area's history since the early 19th century, and the city was incorporated in 1897.
Long helped bring Indian Head Mills, owned by the Nashua Manufacturing Company of New Hampshire, to Cordova. Ground was broken in 1896 and the mill opened in 1898, with a whole village around it, including a ten-room school, a library, a hotel, a commissary and 130 tenements for workers; the mill village even had its own police force. The mill, called the Cordova Spinners by residents, won high government praise for its products during World War II. Long's heirs built Long Memorial Methodist Church in 1912, with stained glass windows imported from Italy. The mill's closing in 1962 cost more than 800 jobs and the town declined. On April 27, 2011, an EF3 tornado struck before dawn and an EF4 that afternoon cut through downtown, destroying most of the historic district, including the city hall, police and fire stations and the old Tallulah Hotel. Sources The Historical Marker Database: City Of Cordova (Alabama Tourism Department and the City of Cordova) Wikipedia: Cordova, Alabama
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