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| CORDOVA IMPROVEMENT & PRESERVATION ASSOCIATION, INC. Presents Your Guide to Cordova, Alabama |
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| What is CIPA? Click on logo to find out. |
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| CORDOVA INDUSTRIAL DEVELOPMENT SITES: |
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| MULBERRY BEND (OLD BFP) |
| MAP OF INDUSTRIAL SITE LOCATIONS (Opens with Microsoft Word) |
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| The future of Cordova, Alabama and Walker County are being affected by the construction of a limited access freeway, Corridor X, also known as Future Interstate 22. For photographs and maps of the Cordova exits, click here. Photos of Parrish Road exit (HIGH ALTITUDE MAPS COURTESY OF WALKER COUNTY DEVELOPMENT AUTHORITY) |
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| CORDOVA AND CORRIDOR X |
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| CIPA and the City of Cordova have sponsored several community activities. To view photos and captions, click on the picture. |
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| Cordova, Alabama, originally called Dent's Place, became a community in 1859, when Captain Benjamin McFarland Long opened a mercantile shop. He renamed the area Cordova, after a Mexican town where he was stationed during the Mexican War. Long provided land for industries to locate in Cordova, and the largest employer was Indian Head Textile Mills. During the next five years, 130 homes and an elementary school were built for the employees. Many of these houses are still in use. In 1866 two rail lines brought more progress and connected Cordova to the outside world. Cordova is located in southwest Walker County, near the banks of the Mulberry fork of the Black Warrior River. (Click here for maps) The city has an area of 5.9 square miles and a population of 2423. The climate is sub-tropicla with warm summers, mild winters, and ample year-long precipitation. Cordova has three schools: Cordova Elementary, Bankhead Middle, and Cordova High School. (Click here for more information about the schools.) There are many churches of various denominations, several businesses, industries, land for development and abundant natural beauty. Cordova is home to several waterways that can be developed for leisure activities: Cane Creek, Disney Lake, and the Mulberry Fork mentioned above. Cordova is one of only two towns in Walker County that have access to the Gulf of Mexico! and Cordova are doing much to prepare for the completion of I-22, which will connect Birmingham to Memphis. (See links) The proximity of the freeway to the town will impact the population and growth of Cordova over the next decades. There is a trend in America towards to return to the flavour of the neighbourhood community. Only twenty minutes from Birmingham, life in Cordova will be very appealing to to those who desire the relaxed atmosphere of small-town life that Cordova has to offer. |
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| Check out Cordova's history page. CLICK HERE |
| After several years of planning, and problems with the initial site, the backhoes and bulldozers are finally moving dirt. With an eye on an expected increase in population due to the new interstate exits, the new facility will serve 700 plus students. Click here for more information and photos of the site. |
| Page last updated: 1 NOV 2007 |
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| Page listing businesses, services, industries, and places of interest, Click here. |
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| Close-up Photos of Cordova's Corridor X Exits. Click here. |
| This summer BAE Systems will be leasing the Warrior River Steel facility to build an armament system for the U.S. Navy's newest surface ships-DDG 1000 Zumwalt Class. The plant will give Allied Steel's present employees the option to stay, and there is a possibility of further hiring in the future. BAE Systems is the premier global defense and aerospace company. Its heritage includes such companies as those who invented the first submarine, the WWII Sherman tank, the Harrier jet and the Concorde. Click here to access BAE Systems's own article. Click here to access the Daily Mountain Eagle's article. |
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| The Strategic Planning Group and the City of Cordova want to make sure our citizens are aware of the progress that is being made in our town. Pertinent news and events will be published monthly in a newsletter. Get your hard copy at the Piggly Wiggly, banks, pharmacies, and City Hall. You can also access a copies by clicking right here. |
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| Cordova Receives a grant to convert old armory building into a community center A local citizen designs and builds attractive sign for downtown to inform citizens of important events. Remember, all public meetings are announced in the local post office building and in City Hall. |
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