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Originally posted by Just_:
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Originally posted by Larry Tate:
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Originally posted by Just_:

Someone, please refresh my memory on how the city of Muscle Shoals was misspelled but has been accepted. It should have been Mussel. How or who decided to keep the mistake in the city's name?


It was not misspelled. Before Wilson Dam and the other dams along the TN River were built, barge traffic had to be done by pushing the boats along with poles, thus, one had to use muscle power to get past the shoals.
....Oh, my bad, I always thought shoals was where the river and the once sandy beach met. Many mussels made this place their home,and have thought all this time the name was originally intended to be Mussel Shoals. Well, so much for legends. LOL


You're right. The area is named for the river mussels. Native Americans used to harvest the mussels from the river shoals. At one time they were plentiful. However, the name was misspelled.

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