About University of North Alabama

The University of North Alabama (UNA) is a public university circles in Florence, Alabama. It is the state’s oldest four-year public university. Occupying a 130-acre (0.5 km2) campus in a residential section of Florence, UNA is located within a four-city Place that in addition to includes Tuscumbia, Sheffield and Muscle Shoals. The four cities compose a metropolitan area with a summative population of 140,000 people.

The University of North Alabama was founded as LaGrange College in 1830. It was reestablished in 1872 as the first state-supported teachers literary south of the Ohio River. A year later, it became one of the nation’s first coeducational colleges.

Florence is a city in, and the county chair of, Lauderdale County, Alabama, United States, in the state’s northwest corner. It is situated along the Tennessee River and is home to the University of North Alabama, the oldest teacher in the state.

According to the 2010 census, the city’s population was 39,319.

Florence is the largest and principal city of the Florence-Muscle Shoals Metropolitan Statistical Area commonly known as “The Shoals” (which as a consequence includes the cities of Muscle Shoals, Sheffield, and Tuscumbia in Colbert County). Florence is considered northwestern Alabama’s primary economic hub.

Annual tourism goings-on include the W. C. Handy Music Festival in the summer and the Renaissance Faire in the fall. Landmarks in Florence augment the Rosenbaum House, the lonesome Frank Lloyd Wright-designed home located in Alabama.

The type of municipal dispensation is mayor-council.