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Leeds, Alabama

1877 establishments in AlabamaBirmingham metropolitan area, AlabamaCities in AlabamaCities in Jefferson County, AlabamaCities in Shelby County, Alabama
Cities in St. Clair County, AlabamaPopulated places established in 1877Use mdy dates from March 2024
Jefferson County and Shelby County and St. Clair County Alabama Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Leeds Highlighted 0141968
Jefferson County and Shelby County and St. Clair County Alabama Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Leeds Highlighted 0141968

Leeds is a tricounty municipality located in Jefferson, St. Clair, and Shelby Counties in the State of Alabama; it is an eastern suburb of Birmingham. As of the 2020 census, its population was 12,324. Leeds was founded in 1877, during the final years of the post-Civil War Reconstruction Era. It housed the workers and their families of Lehigh, a Portland cement manufacturing plant. Named, "The City of Valor" due to three Congressional Medal of Honor recipients, from World War II and the Korean War, who called Leeds home: Alford McLaughlin, William Lawley and Henry "Red" Erwin. A wall in the Leeds Historical Society's Jonathan Bass House Museum is dedicated to the city's three Medal of Honor winners. In spring 2023, Chip Wise, the Leeds High School Band Director, composed an original piece titled, “City of Valor” meant to honor the three Congressional Medal of Honor recipients. In October 2023, the Pearl Harbor National Memorial invited Wise and his marching band to perform the piece at Pearl Harbor on March 26, 2024.

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Jefferson County and Shelby County and St. Clair County Alabama Incorporated and Unincorporated areas Leeds Highlighted 0141968
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