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Florence, CO - History
We would like to provide the residents of Florence a basic history overview.
Welcome to the Florence Home page. The Florence Home page provides as much information as possible on Florence. Knowing Florence’s history is essential to guiding its future. Within Florence’s Home page, you will also find Florence’s Founders, Holiday, and Birthday sections.
Florence has a population of 3913. 51.5% of Florence’s inhabitants are Male, and 48.5 are female. 58.4% of Florence is married and 73.3% own their own home. The Average Home price is $151,344, and the average rent is $804. Household median income in Florence is $50,124, and the individual median income is $26,817. Florence’s Ethnic is the following: White(96.3%), Hispanic(11.3%), Multiple(1.2%), Asian(0.8%), Other(0.7%), Native(0.6%), Black(0.4%).
Florence was built as a transportation center, with three railroads including a small railroad depot for the trains that hauled coal from the neighboring towns of Rockvale and Coal Creek. After a small oil was discovered north of Canon City at Oil Spring, commercial quantity oil was discovered in Florence in 1862, Florence became the first significant oil center west of the Mississippi.
In the early 1880s the town grew rapidly. The city was named after Florence, the daughter of local settler James McCandless. The town was incorporated in 1887.The Downtown Florence Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2017.
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