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.

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Two smaller tracts on the north bank of the Tennessee, in the neighborhood of the Muscle Shoals, were also ceded.
Myths of the Cherokee | James Mooney
But Muscle Shoals is not navigable, and below them again is another shoal which also obstructs navigation.
Personal Memoirs of U. S. Grant, Complete | Ulysses S. Grant
At Muscle Shoals a mushroom city of 20,000 sprang up on an Alabama cotton field in six months.
Creative Chemistry | Edwin E. Slosson
The Muscle Shoals are forty miles long, and I was now in the head of them.
The Scout and Ranger | James Pike
The Muscle Shoals on Tennessee river, in northwestern Alabama.
Myths of the Cherokee | James Mooney

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