The Singing River – Tennessee River

February 24th, 2014 by una-roots

McFarland Park
Florence

Riverfront Park
Sheffield

Legend says that the Yuchie Tribe called the Tennessee River “the singing river” because the flowing waters sounded like a woman singing. The sounds of the shoals are now buried by the reservoirs of TVA’s Wilson and Wheeler dams, but the Alabama State Legislature honored the legend – and Muscle Shoals’ place in the music world – by renaming the new bridge near the Wilson Dam “The Singing River Bridge.”

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