Muscle Shoals

noun

former rapids of the Tennessee River in SW Alabama, changed into a lake by Wilson Dam: part of the Tennessee Valley Authority.

Two smaller tracts on the north bank of the Tennessee, in the neighborhood of the Muscle shoals, were also ceded.

But Muscle Shoals is not navigable, and below them again is another shoal which also obstructs navigation.

At Muscle Shoals a mushroom city of 20,000 sprang up on an Alabama cotton field in six months.

The Muscle Shoals are forty miles long, and I was now in the head of them.

The Muscle shoals on Tennessee river, in northwestern Alabama.

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