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Colbert County is a county located in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama.^[1]

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1867 establishments in Alabama

Adam Lazzara

Adam Lazzara is an American musician.

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African Americans

African Americans, also known as Black Americans or Afro-Americans, are an ethnic group consisting of Americans with partial or total ancestry from any of the Black racial groups of Africa.

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Al Gamble

John Allen "Al" Gamble (born March 11, 1969) is an American, Memphis, Tennessee and Birmingham, Alabama based, session musician, playing Hammond B-3 organ and keyboards.

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Alabama

Alabama is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States.

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Alabama State Route 13

State Route 13 (SR 13) is a state highway in the western part of the U.S. state of Alabama. Colbert County, Alabama and Alabama State Route 13 are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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State Route 133 (SR 133) is a mostly multi-lane state highway and is a primary artery through the Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area in the northwestern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. Colbert County, Alabama and Alabama State Route 133 are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Alabama State Route 157

State Route 157 (SR 157) is a state highway in the northern and northwestern parts of the U.S. state of Alabama. Colbert County, Alabama and Alabama State Route 157 are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Alabama State Route 17

State Route 17 (SR 17) is a major north-to-south highway within the U.S. state of Alabama. Colbert County, Alabama and Alabama State Route 17 are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Alabama State Route 184

State Route 184 (SR 184) is a state highway that serves as an east-west connection between Sheffield and SR 101.

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Alabama State Route 20

State Route 20 (SR 20) is a state highway in the northern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. Colbert County, Alabama and Alabama State Route 20 are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Alabama State Route 247

State Route 247 (SR 247) is a route that serves as a connection between State Route 24 east of Halltown with U.S. Route 72 (US 72) west of Muscle Shoals. Colbert County, Alabama and Alabama State Route 247 are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Alaska Natives

Alaska Natives (also known as Alaskan Indians, Alaskan Natives, Native Alaskans, Indigenous Alaskans, Aboriginal Alaskans or First Alaskans) are the Indigenous peoples of Alaska and include Alaskan Creoles, Iñupiat, Yupik, Aleut, Eyak, Tlingit, Haida, Tsimshian, and a number of Northern Athabaskan cultures.

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Alecia Elliott

Alecia Elliott (born December 25, 1982) is an American contemporary country music singer and actress.

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Alfred Huger Moses

Alfred Huger Moses (1840–1918) was an American banker and investor who founded the city of Sheffield, Alabama.

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Allsboro, Alabama

Allsboro is a populated place in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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Amanda Chase

Amanda Chase (née Freeman; born December 1, 1969) is an American far-right politician and conspiracy theorist.

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American Civil War

The American Civil War (April 12, 1861 – May 26, 1865; also known by other names) was a civil war in the United States between the Union ("the North") and the Confederacy ("the South"), which was formed in 1861 by states that had seceded from the Union.

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Anthony Piccione

Anthony Piccione (July 3, 1939 – November 18, 2001) was an American poet.

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Archibald H. Carmichael

Archibald Hill Carmichael (June 17, 1864 – July 15, 1947) was an American Democratic politician who represented Alabama's 8th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from November 1933 to January 1937.

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Aretha Franklin

Aretha Louise Franklin (March 25, 1942 – August 16, 2018) was an American singer, songwriter and pianist.

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Arthur Alexander

Arthur Alexander (May 10, 1940 – June 9, 1993) was an American country-soul songwriter and singer.

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Asian Americans

Asian Americans are Americans of Asian ancestry (including naturalized Americans who are immigrants from specific regions in Asia and descendants of those immigrants).

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Barton, Alabama

Barton, also known as Barton Station, Barton Depot, or Barton's, is an unincorporated community located in western Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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Ben Cunningham (activist)

Ben Cunningham (born 1947 in Sheffield, Alabama) is a Gallatin, Tennessee real estate investor and founder and spokesman of the grassroots political group Tennessee Tax Revolt, Inc. Cunningham is a Republican, but his group includes many Libertarians and conservative Democrats.

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Beverly Barton

Beverly Marie Beaver (née Inman; December 23, 1946 – April 21, 2011), better known as Beverly Barton, was an American author, known for her romantic suspense novels.

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Bobby E. Denton

Bobby E. Denton is a former Democratic member of the Alabama Senate, who represented the 1st District since 1978, and was the Dean of the Senate, an honorary title.

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Boyd Bennett

Boyd Byron Bennett (December 7, 1924 – June 2, 2002) was an American rockabilly songwriter and singer.

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Buzzard Roost, Alabama

Buzzard Roost is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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Cecil Dowdy

Cecil Dowdy (May 9, 1945 – November 24, 2002) was an American college football player and businessman.

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Census

A census is the procedure of systematically acquiring, recording and calculating population information about the members of a given population.

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Cherokee, Alabama

Cherokee is a town in west Colbert County, Alabama, United States. Colbert County, Alabama and Cherokee, Alabama are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Chickasaw

The Chickasaw are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States.

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Chris Tompkins

Christopher G. Tompkins (born Muscle Shoals, Alabama) is an American songwriter based in Nashville.

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Comedy Central

Comedy Central is an American adult-oriented basic cable channel owned by Paramount Global through its network division's MTV Entertainment Group unit, based in Manhattan.

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Constituent assembly

A constituent assembly (also known as a constitutional convention, constitutional congress, or constitutional assembly) is a body assembled for the purpose of drafting or revising a constitution.

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County (United States)

In the United States, a county or county equivalent is an administrative or political subdivision of a U.S. state or other territories of the United States which consists of a geographic area with specific boundaries and usually some level of governmental authority.

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County seat

A county seat is an administrative center, seat of government, or capital city of a county or civil parish.

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David Hood

David Hood (born September 21, 1943) is an American musician, hailing from Muscle Shoals, Alabama, He is known for playing the bass guitar and trombone, and is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame.

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Deion Belue

Deion Belue (born September 3, 1991) is a former American football cornerback.

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Dennis Homan

Dennis Frank Homan (born January 9, 1946) is an American former professional football player who was a wide receiver in the National Football League (NFL) for five seasons for the Dallas Cowboys (1968–1970) and the Kansas City Chiefs (1971–1972).

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Dominique Croom

Dominique Croom (born April 26, 1991) is a former American football wide receiver.

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Douglas A. Foster

Douglas A. Foster (born August 30, 1952) is an American author and scholar known for his work on the history of Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement.

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Drive-By Truckers

Drive-By Truckers are an American rock band based in Athens, Georgia.

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Edward Lee West, III (born August 2, 1961), nicknamed "the Toolbox", is a former professional American football player.

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Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area

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.

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Ford City, Alabama

Ford City is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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Frank Manush

Frank Henry Benjamin Manush (September 18, 1883 – January 5, 1965) was an American Major League Baseball third baseman.

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Franklin County, Alabama

Franklin County is a county located in the U.S. state of Alabama. Colbert County, Alabama and Franklin County, Alabama are Alabama counties and counties of Appalachia.

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Fred Thompson

Freddie Dalton Thompson (August 19, 1942 – November 1, 2015) was an American politician, attorney, lobbyist, columnist, actor, and radio personality.

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Gary Nichols

Gary Nichols (born 1978 in Muscle Shoals, Alabama) is an American country music singer.

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George Colbert

George Colbert (November 7, 1839) was an early 19th-century Chickasaw leader.

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Guy Morton

Guy Morton, Sr. (June 1, 1893 – October 18, 1934) was a Major League baseball pitcher for the Cleveland Indians.

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Hatton, Colbert County, Alabama

Hatton is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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Hawk Pride Mountain

Hawk Pride Mountain is a summit in Colbert County, Alabama, in the United States.

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Heinie Manush

Henry Emmett Manush (July 20, 1901 – May 12, 1971), nicknamed "Heinie", was an American baseball outfielder.

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Helen Keller

Helen Adams Keller (June 27, 1880 – June 1, 1968) was an American author, disability rights advocate, political activist and lecturer.

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Henry Stuart Foote (February 28, 1804May 19, 1880) was a United States Senator from Mississippi and the chairman of the United States Senate Committee on Foreign Relations from 1847 to 1852.

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Herschel Sizemore

Herschel Lee Sizemore (August 6, 1935 – September 9, 2022) was an American mandolinist in the bluegrass tradition.

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Hispanic and Latino Americans

Hispanic and Latino Americans (Estadounidenses hispanos y latinos; Estadunidenses hispânicos e latinos) are Americans of full or partial Spanish and/or Latin American background, culture, or family origin.

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Howell Heflin

Howell Thomas Heflin (June 19, 1921 – March 29, 2005) was an American lawyer and politician.

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Huntsville, Alabama

Huntsville is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Alabama.

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Indian Removal Act

The Indian Removal Act of 1830 was signed into law on May 28, 1830, by United States President Andrew Jackson.

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Ivy Green

Ivy Green is a historic house museum at 300 West North Commons in Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States.

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James Deshler

James Deshler (February 18, 1833 – September 20, 1863) was a career United States Army officer and a graduate of West Point who later joined the Confederate States Army.

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Jason Jamar Allen (born July 5, 1983) is an American former professional football player who was a cornerback in the National Football League (NFL).

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Jimmy Hughes (singer)

Jimmy J. Hughes (born February 3, 1938) Other sources give an apparently incorrect birth year of 1935, and Allmusic states incorrectly that he died in 1997.

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Jimmy Johnson (session guitarist)

Jimmy Ray Johnson (February 4, 1943 – September 5, 2019) was an American session guitarist and record producer.

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John Paul White

John Paul White (born August 4, 1972) is an American musician and former member of the Grammy Award-winning duo the Civil Wars.

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John W. Keys

John Walton Keys III (March 25, 1942 – May 30, 2008) was the Commissioner of the United States Bureau of Reclamation from 2001 to 2006.

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Joseph Humphrey Sloss

Joseph Humphrey Sloss (October 12, 1826 – January 27, 1911) was an American politician who served the state of Alabama in the U.S. House of Representatives between 1871 and 1875.

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Kelvin Holly

Kelvin Lee Holly (born September 13, 1954, in Fort Dix, New Jersey, United States) is an American guitarist and musician.

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Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard

The Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard is a specialized and restricted pet cemetery and memorial in rural Colbert County, Alabama, US. Colbert County, Alabama and Key Underwood Coon Dog Memorial Graveyard are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Lauderdale County, Alabama

Lauderdale County is a county located in the northwestern corner of the U.S. state of Alabama. Colbert County, Alabama and Lauderdale County, Alabama are Alabama counties, counties of Appalachia and Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Lawrence County, Alabama

Lawrence County is a county in the northern part of the U.S. state of Alabama. Colbert County, Alabama and Lawrence County, Alabama are Alabama counties and counties of Appalachia.

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Lefty Bates

Lefty Bates (March 9, 1920 – April 7, 2007)Doc Rock (2007).

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Leigh Tiffin

Van Leigh Tiffin, Jr. (born August 3, 1988) is a former American football kicker.

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Leighton, Alabama

Leighton is a town in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. Colbert County, Alabama and Leighton, Alabama are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Leon Douglas

Leon Douglas (born August 26, 1954) is an American basketball coach and former professional player.

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Levi Colbert

Levi Colbert (c. 1759June 2, 1834) was an early 19th-century Chickasaw leader and the namesake of Itawamba County, Mississippi.

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Listerhill, Alabama

Listerhill is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, in the U.S. state of Alabama.

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Littleville, Alabama

Littleville is a town located on the southern border of Colbert County, Alabama, United States, and extends into Franklin County. Colbert County, Alabama and Littleville, Alabama are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Marcel Black

Marcel Black (born March 25, 1951) is an American Democratic Party politician who was a member of the Alabama House of Representatives from 1990 to 2018.

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Margaret Pellegrini

Margaret Pellegrini (Williams; September 23, 1923 – August 7, 2013) was an American actress, vaudeville performer and dancer, best known for playing one of the Munchkins from the 1939 film The Wizard of Oz. Until her death in 2013, she was one of the three surviving munchkins, the other two being Jerry Maren and Ruth Robinson Duccini.

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Mark Sears

Mark Christopher Sears (born February 19, 2002) is an American college basketball player for the Alabama Crimson Tide of the Southeastern Conference (SEC).

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Marriage

Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognised union between people called spouses.

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Maud McKnight Lindsay

Maud McKnight Lindsay (1874–1941) was an American educator.

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Maud, Colbert County, Alabama

Maud is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, United States, located southwest of Cherokee.

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Metropolitan statistical area

In the United States, a metropolitan statistical area (MSA) is a geographical region with a relatively high population density at its core and close economic ties throughout the region.

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Mike Cooley (musician)

John Michael Cooley (born September 14, 1966) is an American songwriter, singer, and guitarist from Tuscumbia, Alabama, near Muscle Shoals.

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Mountain Mills, Alabama

Mountain Mills is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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Multiracial Americans

Multiracial Americans or mixed-race Americans are Americans who have mixed ancestry of two or more races. The term may also include Americans of mixed-race ancestry who self-identify with just one group culturally and socially (cf. the one-drop rule). In the 2020 United States census, 33.8 million individuals or 10.2% of the population, self-identified as multiracial.

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Muscle Shoals, Alabama

Muscle Shoals is the largest city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States. Colbert County, Alabama and Muscle Shoals, Alabama are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Natchez Trace Parkway

The Natchez Trace Parkway is a limited-access national parkway in the Southeastern United States that commemorates the historic Natchez Trace and preserves sections of that original trail.

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National Register of Historic Places listings in Colbert County, Alabama

This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Colbert County, Alabama.

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Native Americans in the United States

Native Americans, sometimes called American Indians, First Americans, or Indigenous Americans, are the Indigenous peoples native to portions of the land that the United States is located on.

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Nitrate City, Alabama

Nitrate City is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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Non-Hispanic whites

Non-Hispanic Whites or Non-Latino Whites are White Americans classified by the United States census as "white" and not Hispanic.

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Norfolk Southern Railway

The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States.

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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.

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Northwest Alabama Regional Airport

Northwest Alabama Regional Airport is a public-use airport located one mile east of Muscle Shoals, in Colbert County, Alabama. Colbert County, Alabama and Northwest Alabama Regional Airport are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Northwest–Shoals Community College is a public community college with two campuses in Alabama, one in Phil Campbell and the second in Muscle Shoals. Colbert County, Alabama and Northwest–Shoals Community College are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Ozzie Newsome

Ozzie Newsome Jr. (born March 16, 1956) is an American professional football executive and former player who is the executive vice president of player personnel of the Baltimore Ravens of the National Football League (NFL).

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Pacific Islander Americans

Pacific Islander Americans (also colloquially referred to as Islander Americans) are Americans who are of Pacific Islander ancestry (or are descendants of the indigenous peoples of Oceania or of Austronesian descent).

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Patterson Hood

Patterson David Hood (born March 24, 1964) is an American singer-songwriter and co-founder of the band Drive-By Truckers.

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Per capita income

Per capita income (PCI) or average income measures the average income earned per person in a given area (city, region, country, etc.) in a specified year.

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Percy Sledge

Percy Tyrone Sledge (November 25, 1940 – April 14, 2015) was an American R&B, soul and gospel singer.

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Pete Carr

Jesse Willard "Pete" Carr (April 22, 1950 – June 27, 2020) was an American guitarist.

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Phillip Swann

Phil Swann (born Phillip Douglas Swann, November 8, 1960, in Milton, West Virginia, United States) is an American singer, songwriter, composer, record producer, arranger, teacher and author.

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Place of birth

The place of birth (POB) or birthplace is the place where a person was born.

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Population density

Population density (in agriculture: standing stock or plant density) is a measurement of population per unit land area.

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Poverty threshold

The poverty threshold, poverty limit, poverty line, or breadline is the minimum level of income deemed adequate in a particular country.

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Pride, Alabama

Pride is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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Race and ethnicity in the United States census

In the United States census, the U.S. Census Bureau and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) define a set of self-identified categories of race and ethnicity chosen by residents, with which they most closely identify.

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Rece Davis

Rece Davis (born December 14, 1965) is an American sports television journalist for ESPN/ABC.

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Richard H. Jackson

Richard Harrison Jackson (May 10, 1866 – October 2, 1971) was a four-star admiral in the United States Navy.

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Rick Hall

Roe Erister "Rick" Hall (January 31, 1932 – January 2, 2018) was an American record producer, songwriter, and musician who became known as the owner of FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama.

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Rick James (baseball)

Richard Lee James (born October 11, 1947) is an American former professional baseball player.

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Robert B. Lindsay

Robert Burns Lindsay (July 4, 1824 – February 13, 1902) was a Scots-American politician, elected as the 22nd Governor of the U.S. state of Alabama during Reconstruction, and serving one term from 1870 to 1872.

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Robert Byrne (songwriter)

Robert Byrne (July 10, 1954 – June 27, 2005) was an American songwriter known primarily for his work in country music.

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Sheffield, Alabama

Sheffield is a city in Colbert County, Alabama, United States, and is included in the Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Area. As of the 2020 census, the population of the city was 9,403. Colbert County, Alabama and Sheffield, Alabama are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Spring Valley, Alabama

Spring Valley is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, United States.

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Stan Munsey

Stan E. Munsey (born July 10, 1955) is an American songwriter and one of several writer-musicians to emerge from the Muscle Shoals, Alabama music scene.

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Tennessee River

The Tennessee River is the largest tributary of the Ohio River.

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The Colbert Report

The Colbert Report is an American late-night talk and news satire television program hosted by Stephen Colbert that aired four days a week on Comedy Central from October 17, 2005, to December 18, 2014, for 1,447 episodes.

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The Huntsville Times

The Huntsville Times was a thrice-weekly newspaper published in Huntsville, Alabama.

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The Rolling Stones

The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London in 1962.

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Tishomingo County, Mississippi

Tishomingo County is a county located in the northeastern corner of the U.S. state of Mississippi. Colbert County, Alabama and Tishomingo County, Mississippi are counties of Appalachia.

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Tuscumbia, Alabama

Tuscumbia is a city in, and the county seat of, Colbert County, Alabama, United States. Colbert County, Alabama and Tuscumbia, Alabama are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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U.S. Route 43

U.S. Route 43 (US 43) is a north–south United States Highway in the Southern states of Alabama and Tennessee. Colbert County, Alabama and U.S. Route 43 are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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U.S. Route 72

U.S. Route 72 (US 72) is an east–west United States highway that travels for from southwestern Tennessee, throughout North Mississippi, North Alabama, and southeastern Tennessee. Colbert County, Alabama and U.S. Route 72 are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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U.S. state

In the United States, a state is a constituent political entity, of which there are 50.

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United States Census Bureau

The United States Census Bureau (USCB), officially the Bureau of the Census, is a principal agency of the U.S. Federal Statistical System, responsible for producing data about the American people and economy.

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Village Number 1, Alabama

Village Number 1, also known as The Village and Nitrate Plant Number 1 Reservation Subdivision, is an unincorporated community in Colbert County, Alabama, in the United States. Colbert County, Alabama and Village Number 1, Alabama are Florence–Muscle Shoals metropolitan area.

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Wayne Greenhaw

Harold Wayne Greenhaw (February 17, 1940 – May 31, 2011) was an American writer and journalist.

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Wendell Wilkie Gunn

Wendell Wilkie Gunn (born September 23, 1942) is a retired corporate executive, a former Reagan Administration official, and the first African American student to enroll and graduate from the University of North Alabama in 1965 (then Florence State College) in Florence, Alabama.

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Will Reynolds

William Reynolds was an American mass murderer who shot nine people, seven of them fatally, in Tuscumbia, Alabama, United States on April 6, 1902, before being shot dead himself.

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William H. Steele (judge)

William Howard Steele (born June 8, 1951) is a senior United States district judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of Alabama.

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William Henry Sawtelle

William Henry Sawtelle (August 27, 1868 – December 17, 1934) was a United States circuit judge of the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit and previously was a United States district judge of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colbert_County,_Alabama

Also known as Colbert Co., Al, Colbert Co., Alabama, Colbert County, Colbert County, AL, History of Colbert County, Alabama.

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Colbert County, Alabama, the Glossary

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1867 establishments in Alabama

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