Wilsons TVA Dam Muscles shoal Area Alabama

Wilsons TVA Dam Muscles shoal Area Alabama

• city of Muscles Shoals
• In the early 1900’s, the land that is now Muscle Shoals was farm land with farm houses scattered among the cotton fields. In 1918, a year after the United States entered World War I, the building of Wilson Dam 
• city has been known for music
• Muscle Shoals Sound
• Tenessee River
• Wilson Lake. It is one of nine Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) dams on the Tennessee River
• Wilson Dam began in 1918
• First electricity generating unit did not go into service until September 1925
• 652-mile-long river
• used for Flood Control and Navigation
• 9 Ft Navigable Debt
• Project started to make military Explosives