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Cordova is a city in Walker County, Alabama, United States. It was formerly a textile mill town. It was incorporated in 1897. At the 2010 census the population was 2,095, down from 2,423 in 2000.

Cordova was originally a settlement on the Mulberry Fork of the Black Warrior River called “Dent” or “Dent’s Place.” The city was dubbed “Cordova” by Captain Benjamin M. Long in 1859. He named the city after a city in Mexico where he was stationed during the Mexican–American War. Long himself opened a mercantile shop in the city and helped lure other industries into the city by providing the land critical for their operations.

The company that had the biggest impact on the city was Nashua Manufacturing Company out of Nashua, New Hampshire, who brought in the Indian Head Textile Mills. The mill brought subsequently it many jobs, and as was adequate of the day, its own village. The company built exceeding 100 houses in the city, many of which are nevertheless standing, and occupied today. The company even built the Indian Head school upon the site of present-day “Cordova Health and Rehabilitation Center.” The mill helped to bring two major railways to the city, which at the era helped affix the city to much of the surrounding area. The mill eventually became its own “town” and even had its own surgically remove police force.