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Florence is a city with an area of 64.8 km² (25.0 mi²) and a population of 36,264 people Search and find companies, telephone numbers, addresses, email addresses in the Business Directory Florence Florence is a city in in Lauderdale County in extreme northwestern Alabama. The seat of Lauderdale County, Florence is the largest city in the metropolitan conurbation known as the Shoals (which also includes Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia) and is the economic center of northwestern Alabama. Florence is the birthplace of W.C. Handy, the Father of the Blues, as well as pioneering record producer Sam Phillips, discoverer of Elvis Presley. T.S. Stribling, a 20th century author and Florence resident, wrote a prose trilogy about the city consisting of The Forge, The Store (which won the Pulitzer Prize), and Unfinished Cathedral. Florence is renowned for its yearly Renaissance Faire and for the annual W.C. Handy Music Festival. Florence landmarks include Rosenbaum, the only Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home located in the Southeast. Florence s municipal government is a mayor-council type.