President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Muscle Shoals in January 1933 to view the Wilson
Courtesy of Birmingham Public Library Archives


Roosevelt Visits Wilson Dam

President-Elect Franklin D. Roosevelt came to Muscle Shoals in January 1933 to view the Wilson Dam with a party that included senators George Norris, Kenneth McKellar, Clarence Dill, Tennessee governor Hill McAlister, Alabama governor Benjamin M. Miller, and Mrs. Curtis Dell, Roosevelt's daughter.

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