January 25, 2023

On Monday evening, the Florence Falcon Launch Program held a dinner to highlight the program's achievements since its inception and celebrate the students' hard work in their respective placements. The program partners with over 102 businesses in a wide variety of professions!

The Launch Program students gain valuable knowledge and experience through real-world, on-the-job training before graduating high school.

Check out many pictures from the event...

Launch student Colin Brooks interns with the FCS Communications Department and produced and edited the following video, which details the Launch Program throughout the years.

The 2023 Shoals Scale Back was a huge success! Nearly 300 people took advantage of many health resources and educational resources from across the Shoals. Thank you to the event hosts, Councilmember Kaytrina Simmons, Susan Bentley WHMD-BC, and Dr. Javar Myatt-Jones MD-BC. Thank you to the 38 health professionals and organizations that exhibited including the food truck!

We are excited to announce that the 2024 Shoals Scale Back event is already in the works!

The Florence Indian Mound is grateful for the support and help from the Muscle Shoals National Heritage Area, the Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, the Alabama Chapter of the Trail of Tears Association, and the amazing Amy Bluemel!

Learn more about upcoming events...

John McKinley, the first person from Alabama to serve as a Justice on the United States Supreme Court and the man for whom our City’s beautiful Post Office building is named, had what was described as a very beautiful home just behind the present-day Hampton Hotel in downtown Florence. There were only a few structures near the home at that time, so the McKinley family enjoyed a practically unimpeded view of the mighty Tennessee River. Anne Royall, the brave (or foolhardy) journalist from Georgia who traveled alone to visit towns on the frontier, described thusly a portion of an afternoon she spent at the McKinley home in 1820: “The dwelling contains more taste and splendor, by one-half, that I ever saw in my whole life put together. But this is nothing. Mrs. McKinley, the elegance of her manners and the sweetness of her conversation, joined with her interesting children, completely disconcerted me. Everything in the house had, to me, the appearance of enchantment. I never was in such a paradise before. Mrs. McKinley looked as though she had dropped from above. I never was more confounded. And the children were the handsomest I had ever seen. I was so completely fascinated by their manners.” [Yes, Anne Royall’s writing often tilted toward the hyperbolic, but it is always interesting, nonetheless, as it gives the modern-day reader a glimpse into frontier Florence.]

--Billy Warren, City Historian

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