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Leeds, Alabama

City in Alabama, United States

Leeds is a tricounty municipality located in Jefferson, St. Clair, and Shelby counties in the U.S. state of Alabama; it is an eastern suburb of Birmingham. As of the census, its population was 12,^[3]

Leeds was founded in , during the final years of the post-Civil WarReconstruction Era.

It housed the workers and their families of Lehigh, a Portland cement manufacturing plant.

Leeds is nicknamed "The City of Valor"^[4] because of 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 three men.^[4] In spring , 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.^{[5&# Charles Barkley | Biography, Stats, Height, Teams, & Facts ..., carousel NEHA}