Muscle Shoals Canal

Workers stand in a trench with digging tools at the Muscle Shoals canal, Colbert County, in the 1880s. The project was first authorized in 1831, but construction was abandoned in 1837. It was revived in 1873 and completed in 1890.

Men pose during the construction of the Muscle Shoals Canal on the Tennessee River in Alabama
Courtesy of the Alabama Department of Archives and History
Men pose during the construction of the Muscle Shoals Canal on the Tennessee River in Alabama