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The University of North Alabama (UNA) is a public university in Florence, Alabama. It is the state's oldest public university. It is the state's oldest public university. Occupying a 130-acre (0.5 km 2 ) campus in a residential section of Florence, UNA is located within a four-city area that also includes Tuscumbia , Sheffield and Muscle Shoals .
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. Florence is located along the Tennessee River and is home to the University of North Alabama, the oldest public college in the state, which makes Florence a college town.
Part of the 130-acre (0.53 km 2) University of North Alabama campus, Wesleyan Hall currently contains the departments of Geography, Psychology, and Foreign Languages. It also houses the Geographic Research Center, a cartography lab, and a language lab. The Department of Military Science is located in Wesleyan Annex.
According to 2023 U.S. Census data, the average population of Alabama's 67 counties is 76,246, with Jefferson County as the most populous (662,895), and Greene County (7,341) the least. [ 7] The average land area is 756 sq mi (1,958 km 2 ). The largest county is Baldwin (1,590 sq mi, 4,118 km 2) and the smallest is Etowah (535 sq mi, 1,386 km 2 ...
The Florence–Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area, commonly known as “ The Shoals”, is a metropolitan statistical area in northwestern Alabama including the cities of Florence, Muscle Shoals, Tuscumbia, and Sheffield, and the counties of Lauderdale and Colbert. The 2020 Census population for the Shoals is 148,779 and an additional 410,000 ...
Northwest Alabama. Northwest Alabama is a subdivision of the North Alabama region, and includes the cities of Florence, Muscle Shoals, Russellvile, Hamilton, Haleyville, and their surrounding areas in the state of Alabama. The region includes one metropolitan area, the Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area.
Rogers Hall, also known as Courtview, is a three-story antebellum house at 500 Court Street in Florence, Alabama. It was built by enslaved people from 1854 to 1855. [2] It is one of the oldest historic landmarks on the University of North Alabama campus and one of the university's most distinctive structures. [3]
Lawrence Sullivan Ross, Confederate States Army general and Texas governor, 1887–1891, was a graduate of Florence Wesleyan University, now the University of North Alabama LaGrange graduate R.H. Rivers , after becoming president of the college, led most of the students and all but one faculty member from the mountain in late 1854 to relocate ...