Muscle Shoals
Long known as ,the Shoals,, Muscle Shoals saw its formal birth as an incorporated city in 1923. It really sprang to life in 1933, when the Tennessee Valley Authority took shape on the Tennessee River and became the nation,s largest public power company. The construction crew for the Wilson Dam and power plant was one of the region,s first racially integrated workforces. Some truly influential figures of the 20th century came to Muscle Shoals to witness firsthand what was unfoldingin this tiny corner of the world. Thomas Edison and Henry Ford found themselves drawn to Wilson Dam and the nitrate plants in the early 1920s, as did the French exis…
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- ISBN: 978-1-4396-3527-8
- EAN: 9781439635278
- Produktnummer: 28055623
- Verlag: Arcadia Publishing Inc.
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2007
- Seitenangabe: 0 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 19'274 KB
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