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Wilson Dam is located at river mile 259.4 of the Tennessee River, spanning the river in a roughly north–south orientation between Florence and Muscle Shoals in northern Alabama. [4] The dam is 137 feet (42 m) high and 4,541 feet (1,384 m) long. [ 5 ]
In 1916, President Woodrow Wilson signed the National Defense Act, which authorized the construction of two nitrate-manufacturing plants and a dam to provide them hydropower. [3] President Wilson chose Muscle Shoals, Alabama as the site of the dam, which when completed in 1924, was named Wilson Dam . [ 4 ]
Heavy rainfall in south of the United States forced the release of millions of gallons of water from the Wilson Dam near Florence, Alabama, on Wednesday, February 20.The dam released 2 million ...
Wilson Lake is the reservoir created on the Tennessee River by Wilson Dam as part of the Tennessee Valley Authority. The lake stretches from Wilson Dam to Wheeler Dam ...
Florence: 31: Wilson Dam: Wilson Dam. November 13, 1966 : On the Tennessee River along State Route 133 Florence: Extends into Colbert County: 32: Wilson Park Houses ...
Crossing the dam, it would have entered Florence and followed Wilson Dam Road, just east of the current Cox Creek Parkway alignment. It ended at Huntsville Road, which at the time carried US 72. In the mid-1950s, US 72 in Florence shifted to a new alignment on Florence Boulevard, about 0.5 miles (0.80 km) north of Huntsville Road.
Holt Lock and Dam: Holt Lake: Black Warrior River [2] [3] Howell Heflin Lock and Dam: Gainesville Lake: Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway: Jordan Dam: Jordan Lake: Coosa River: Lake Tuscaloosa Dam: Lake Tuscaloosa: North River: Lay Dam: Lay Lake: Coosa River: Little Bear Creek Dam: Little Bear Creek Reservoir: Little Bear Creek: Logan Martin Dam ...
Florence: Colbert and Lauderdale: Wilson Dam, on the Tennessee River, was built between 1918 and 1925 by the United States Army Corps of Engineers and later came under the control of the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA).