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Local History Written by Billy Warren 6. Wheeler 7. Wilson Did You Know? 8. Pickwick 9. Kentucky Navigating The Tennessee River The three dams that are nearest to the Shoals area are: Wilson, Wheeler and Pickwick. All are within a short driving distance Everyone who lives in the Shoals area has some kind of connection with the beautiful from Colbert and Lauderdale Counties. Tennessee River. For some, it’s just the Since 1943, transportation by water the three bridges which allow them to travel from one city to another. For others, it’s entire length of the mighty Tennessee water sports: fishing, boating, water skiing, River is now possible. It’s no wonder that, shell hunting or walking the trails along locally, we refer to the river as our interstate its banks. For still others, it’s enjoying the highway! breathtaking scenes that the river creates or the architectural marvel known as Wilson SOMETHING TO DO: Dam. Think about your own connection. Is 1. Using a reference source, list the person it one of these listed here or one not on the for whom each of these dams is named: list? a. Wilson b. Wheeler Here is an interesting thought: Without the grand Wilson Dam, many of these 2. The construction of Wilson Dam was connections which we take for granted completed in 1925. How old is the dam this today would not have been possible in an year (2021)? earlier time because, before the completion of the dam in 1925, navigating the Tennessee 3. The Tennessee River is the largest River was limited much of the year since the tributary of the Ohio River and there are at depth of the water changed quickly (and least 40 tributaries of the Tennessee River. often) from one section of the river to the What is a tributary? next, and the bottom of the river had huge boulders and other uneven surfaces. Besides these challenges, B eing overweight or there was massive flooding somewhere in the Shoals obese is a serious almost every year. medical condition that can affect In so many ways, then, the year 1925 was a turning people of all point in the history of the Shoals area. Not only was ages. the wild Tennessee River finally under control, the hydroelectric power generated by the dam brought Carrying around too electricity into the homes and businesses of the local many pounds can be population. Just stop for a minute to think about that. especially problematic for One day, people are reading or cooking or eating by the children because it may put dim light of a fireplace or by kerosene or gas-powered theam on the path to health lamps; the next day, their rooms are lit by inexpensive problems that once generally electric lights! only affected adults. Such issues include diabetes, high But the story doesn’t end there. Did you know that blood pressure and high Wilson Dam is part of a network of dams? It’s true. cholesterol. In 1933, President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed into law the establishment of the Tennessee Valley The Mayo Clinic advises Authority (TVA), and the operation of Wilson Dam that childhood obesity can came under its control. Because of that visionary contribute to poor self-esteem and depression. Fortunately, development, President Roosevelt and United States improving kids’ eating habits, such as ensuring kids eat Senator George Norris of Nebraska began to consider nutrient-dense, low-calorie foods and increasing physical the entire Tennessee River, from Knoxville, Tennessee, activity, are two ways to help kids maintain healthy weights. to Paducah, Kentucky – a total of 1,100 miles of water! Parents who have concerns about their children’s weight should consult with a pediatrician, who may recommend a By 1943, just ten (10) years after TVA was founded, body mass index test. there were nine major dams on the powerful river (see the image accompanying this month’s article). They are: 1. Fort Loudon 2. Watts Bar 3. Chickamauga 4. Nickajack (it replaced the Hales Bar Dam in Marion, Tennessee) 5. Guntersville November 2021 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals Kidsville News! 7

Florence • Sheffield • Killen Mike Randall, REALTOR® Answer on Page 23 Associate Broker 256.366.9779 [email protected] mikerandallhomes.com Your Brain and the November Nervous Systemour brain is an amazing and November 6, 1860 Abraham complex organ. It is the boss of Lincoln was elected as the 16th U.S. President and the first Republican. He Ythe body that controls everything received 180 of 303 possible electoral come from? Your brain, of course. votes and 40 percent of the popular According to www.kidshealth.org, your brain vote. has a little bunch of cells on each side called November 10, 1775 The U.S. Marine Corps was established as you do and remember, including the amygdala. The word amygdala is Latin part of the U.S. Navy. It became a separate unit on July 11, 1789. your emotions. The brain even works while for almond, and that’s what this area looks November 11 Celebrated in the you sleep! like. Scientists believe that the amygdala is U.S. as Veterans Day (formerly called Armistice Day) with parades It controls thought, memory, emotion, responsible for emotion. It’s normal to feel and military memorial ceremonies. touch, movement, motor skills, vision, all different kinds of emotions, good and bad. November 18, 1883 A Connecticut school teacher, Charles F. Dowd, breathing, temperature, hunger and every Sometimes you might feel a little sad, and other proposed a uniform time zone plan for the U.S. consisting of four zones. process that regulates the body. Together the times you might feel scared, or silly or glad. November 26, 1789 The first brain and spinal cord that extends from it Taking care of your brain American holiday occurred, make up the central nervous system. proclaimed by President George So, what can you do for your brain? These Washington to be Thanksgiving Parts of the brain actions are a good place to start. Day, a day of prayer and public thanksgiving in gratitude for the Your brain has many different parts • Eat healthy foods. They contain vitamins and successful establishment of the new American republic. The holiday falls that work together. There’s the cerebrum, minerals that are important for the nervous on November 25 this year. cerebellum brain stem, pituitary gland and system. November 2021 hypothalamus. Each part has its own special job. • Get a lot of playtime and exercise. The brain is a master of multitasking and helps • Wear a helmet when you ride your bike or play you handle and do much all at the same time. other sports that require head protection. With all the other things it does, is it any surprise • Don’t drink alcohol, take drugs or use tobacco. that the brain runs your emotions? Maybe you • Use your brain by doing challenging activities, had fun on your birthday and you were really such as puzzles, reading, playing music or happy. Or your friend is sick and you feel sad. making and finding the challenge you love and Or your little brother messed up your room, so doing it! you’re really angry! Where do those feelings 8 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

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This Page Brought To You By: Learning About Emotions Can you name a time you felt happy, use self-control when we feel mad or skills needed to identify, express and sad or scared? These most common upset. If your little brother spies on you manage feelings. How do you develop emotions or feelings happen because of and a friend, you can say, “Hey, I’m these skills? You discover them by what you see, hear, remember and do. annoyed that you are spying on me and being around people, having social It is good to have different emotions my friend and following us around. I interactions and building relationships because every day and experience would will play with you later, but for now, with important people in your lives such feel the same without all of them. please let me have my time with my as parents, siblings, grandparents and friend.” There’s no need to get in a big caregivers. Types of Feelings fight over it. Just say how you feel and why, without yelling. Learning healthy ways to express Can you name any more? Do you your emotions and cope with your ever feel playful, joyful, calm? Mad, Showing Our Feelings feelings while young can lead to positive upset and worried? Confused, lonely attitudes and behaviors later in life. or nervous? Grateful, glad and cozy? Emotions are expressed in different You can learn to be understanding and Loved, friendly, peaceful? What else? ways but most often using language. We supportive of others; perform better in can also use facial expressions, body school and your future job; have more There are so many feelings to name, gestures, behavior and play. Sometimes positive relationships; have a good but no matter how you feel — good or we act out our feelings in physical, state of mind; display fewer behavioral bad — it’s healthy to put your feelings inappropriate or problematic ways. problems; handle difficult things better; into words. Talking about feelings helps feel more competent, capable and us feel close to people who care. It helps Learning Emotions confident; and have a positive sense of us feel better when we’re sad or scared. self. From birth, you learn the emotional Putting feelings into words helps us 10 Kidsville News! https://kidshelpline.com.au/parents/issues/helping-kids-identify-and-express-feelings November 2021 https://www.verywellfamily.com/how-to-teach-kids-about-feelings-109501 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

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Watch the U. S. Grow Watch as states enter the Union. In 1776, the United States started with only 13 states. The 13 original states appear in this first map. They were Delaware, Pennsylvania, Kansas 1861 Nevada 1864 North Dakota 1889 New Jersey, Georgia, Connecticut, Nebraska 1867 South Dakota 1889 Massachusetts, Maryland, West Virginia splits Colorado 1876 South Carolina, New Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina from Virginia 1863 and Rhode Island. Vermont admitted in 1791 Montana 1889 Idaho 1890 Utah 1896 Washington 1889 as a split from New Hampshire, Kentucky admitted in 1792 and Tennessee in 1796 Wyoming 1890 Ohio 1803 Oklahoma 1907 Louisiana 1812 Indiana 1816 New Mexico 1912 Mississippi 1817 Illinois 1818 Arizona 1912 Alabama 1819 Maine splits from Massachusetts 1820 Missouri 1821 Alaska Arkansas 1836 admitted 1959 Hawaii 1959 Michigan 1837 Florida 1845 California 1850 We are now the United Minnesota 1858 Fifty States of America. How Texas 1845 Oregon 1859 many of the states can you identify in this drawing? Iowa 1846 Some U.S. Territories (like Wisconsin 1848 Puerto Rico ) someday might want statehood. The map of 14 Kidsville News! the United States evolves as November 2021 the will of its people change. (Some state boundaries changed over time so the outlines presented here are mostly the modern boundaries) © 2021 Dr. David R. Curott, UNA Professor Emeritus www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

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The Twin Wizards at the Muscle Shoals: Henry Ford and His Muscle Shoals Bill By Lee Freeman, Florence-Lauderdale Public Library, Local History - Genealogy Department Wednesday, June 15, 1921, residents of Florence were restless activity. I told him when I saw him Saturday that shocked when automobile magnate and industrialist if there were 500 men like him in this country we should Henry Ford (1863-1947) arrived in Florence for a surprise have St. Vitus’ Dance.* He’s a wonder. He is that rare inspection tour of the Wilson Dam and US Government combination of natural mechanic and businessman.” Nitrate Plant No. 2. Ford came to Florence accompanied So, on Saturday, December 2, 1921, the “Twin by his chief engineer WB Mayo, former Sheffield, Wizards,” Ford and Edison came to Florence. Keeping Alabama civil engineer Mr. John W. Worthington and his promise to return to the Shoals, Ford, with his WH Courtenay, chief engineer of the L & N Railroad. wife Clara and their son Edsel, Edsel’s wife Eleanor, Republican President William McKinley signed a bill accompanied by Thomas A. Edison and his second wife, introduced by Civil War and Spanish-American War Mina, returned to Florence in Ford’s private railway car veteran and Democratic Congressman Joseph “Fighting the Fairlane, staying until noon the following Monday, Joe” Wheeler in 1899 that would authorize the building December 4. They were surprised when their train of a dam at the Muscle Shoals. However, the necessary rolled into the station at Florence and no one was funding could not be raised and three years later another there to greet them—it turned out that the crowd had bill for the creation of a dam and power station at the mistakenly gathered at the Sheffield depot by mistake. Muscle Shoals was vetoed by President Theodore Eventually they were met by a “tremendous crowd” Roosevelt on the grounds that the bill did not protect the estimated as not less than 2.000 people, in Florence interests of the federal government. and Edison warmly greeted the children and shook With World War I came an urgent need for the The Florence Times, Friday, June 24, 1921 report hands with several people. After an hour for lunch production of synthetic nitrates used in nitrate explosives. of Henry Ford’s surprise visit to Florence. (“a fine lot of quail” delivered to his railcar, sent by a For that reason, construction on Wilson Dam and the two local admirer), the Ford party left to inspect the dam and nitrate plants began. A number of sites were originally in the running, nitrate plants. The next day Ford was seen in East Florence “bareheaded however President Woodrow Wilson chose the Muscle Shoals, signed the and alone,” astounding locals as he “wandered throughout their business bill authorizing construction, and the dam was named after him. The new section, dropping into stores and meeting people on a basis ‘even as you or dam was known as Dam No. 2, with Dam No. 1 being a small navigation I.’” dam built in the canal near the west end of Patton Island. Plans also called Sunday afternoon the Fords and Edisons were honored at an “impromptu” for the construction of two synthetic nitrate plants in Sheffield along with barbecue by state Farm Bureau head Edward A. O’Neal III at his Chestnut two power-generating steam plants. Hills farm on Gunwaleford Road, which was attended by “a limited number” Ironically, construction on the two nitrate plants was completed just in of other guests. time for the signing of the armistice which ended World War I. However, Monday morning, Mrs. Edison, accompanied by the Misses Ford, paid a Dam No. 2 was not completed until 1925. Enter Henry Ford. call on noted local socialite and widow Mrs. Camilla Coffee (with her late Ford came to Florence to view the Muscle Shoals Project in person. husband AD Coffee, namesake of the old Coffee High School), at her home He did this with the aim of buying the two idle defense plants from the on Wood Avenue, whom Mrs. Edison had met several years previously at government and having the government complete construction of the dam Chautauqua Lake, New York and remembered fondly. and then lease it from the government. Ford told Shoals residents that he A delegation of Tennessee officials, led by Gov. Taylor joined the Ford- was a great believer in water power, using it whenever possible, building Edison party at Nashville and traveled with them to Florence aboard a special many of his plants where water was readily available. ”Water power made railcar. Sunday night, a delegation of ten prominent citizens of Birmingham my profits,” he said. Ford ultimately wanted to use the hydroelectric power arrived in Florence for the purpose of welcoming the Ford-Edison party to generated by the dam to power his industries. When asked if he intended to Alabama and to express their support of Ford’s Muscle Shoals project. build another automobile factory Ford responded that his Detroit plant was When questioned by local reporters on Sunday afternoon, Ford stated turning out a million cars per year and was about to begin mass producing that his life’s work had been to abolish war. This was ultimately why he tractors. He had other plans for the Muscle Shoals. wanted the Muscle Shoals. Ford told attentive reporters of the Florence Ford envisioned a huge metropolis, 75 miles long, stretching from Seven Times that if his proposal was accepted by Congress, it would abolish the Mile Island in the Tennessee River, all the way to Huntsville in Madison gold standard, which Ford believed was the root cause of all wars. “Liberate County, running solely on electric power rather than coal power. This giant business from slavery to gold, as a basis for currency, and you break the city would employ one million people and would be a modern, decentralized, money-brokers’ control of world affairs,” Ford said. \"Gold,\" Ford stated, regional industrial center, but also a utopia of culture, education, and \"could be supplanted by the “energy dollar” produced by water power and recreation. Significantly, Ford’s new city would consist of a series of small other energy resources. His new dollar would “break the strangle-hold of towns or villages, each powered by electric factories and all connected by Wall Street.” Displace Gold as the standard, and you eliminate war, Ford modern highways and telephones, what author Thomas Hager describes as said. But it wasn’t really even necessary to abolish the gold standard, only “a ribbon city along the river, with workers scattered over a green landscape, to issue redeemable, non-interest bearing currency instead of bonds with commuting to their jobs.” their heavy interest charges, when the government needed to fund a project. Ford also envisioned establishing a fleet of riverboats and developing Ford also stated that he didn’t need or want to own the Muscle Shoals, but the water transportation on the Ohio, Tennessee and Mississippi rivers and only wanted to finish and develop it so that it could serve the public benefit establishing a connection with his Toledo & Ironton Railroad. and could never be exploited for private ends. Pleased with what he saw at the Muscle Shoals, Ford stated that he To that end, Henry Ford, upon the suggestion of John W. Worthington “expected to visit Florence frequently.” And return he did, this time on and Lansing Beach—the government’s chief dam builder—conferred with Saturday, December 3, 1921. On this second trip Ford brought with him the Secretary of War John W. Weeks and put in a bid to purchase the Muscle great inventor Thomas Alva Edison (1847-1941). Shoals. But Ford’s wasn’t the only bid. Many other bids were made, by Since Edison knew a thing or two about electricity and creating hydro- the Construction Company of North America, the Newport Shipbuilding electric power with dams, Ford had earlier enlisted Edison as his scientific Company, Alabama Power, Union Carbide, and the American Cyanamid consultant. Commenting on Ford, Edison stated, “The development of the Corporation—even Dodge Bros. Motors, to name a few. industries that Henry Ford proposes to establish at Muscle Shoals will not Ford bid $5 million for the two nitrate plants and estimated that the US only give employment to hundreds of thousands of men, but it will increase Government could complete the dam at a cost of $28 million, well below the wages of everybody in the South. I never saw anything like Ford’s Continued on page 21 - see Wizards 16 Kidsville News! www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals November 2021

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Continued from Wizards on page 16 time, people in the Shoals area government estimates ($48 million), and estimated a mere two years till time of completion (instead of the four years which it actually took). Once had little use for the Senator from Nebraska. For his part, FDR made the dam was completed, Ford would pay back the $28 million through a two brief inspection tours of the 100-year lease, paying the government 6% per year, which would generate $1.7 million in income for the US Government for 100 years. Nitrate Plants and Wilson Dam, in January of 1933 and again in Things began to happen immediately in the Muscle Shoals area. There November of 1934. was an immediate boom in real estate, with property being snatched up by investors, from cities like Detroit, Philadelphia, Kansas City, Los Angeles, And so, in October of 1924 a frustrated Henry Ford withdrew and New York. New communities such as Ford City and Nitrate City, now his bid to purchase the Muscle just wide spaces in the road, soon appeared in Colbert County. Not to be left out, new subdivisions in Florence were planned and existing ones expanded. Shoals. With it died his dream of Mr. Ford and Mr. Edison on the back of Ford’s a 75-mile long city with a million Near the planned subdivision at Ford City an 80-acre airfield, Gusmus Field, railcar the Fairlane on December 4, 1921. workers, founded with the STATED was built. Corinth, Mississippi native and famed barnstormer Col. Roscoe aim of abolishing war. Turner, who in 1923 established the Muscle Shoals Aircraft Corporation and * St. Vitus’ Dance: A medical disorder which causes sudden jerking in 1925 a flight school at Gusmus Field, was in charge of the airfield. or dance-like movements, with St. Vitus being the Christian patron Both Ford and Edison were certain the government would get onboard saint of dancing. with Ford’s proposal, and said so to the press in no uncertain terms. Locals, too, were certain “Uncle Henry” was going to be their savior. In February of 1922 the Ford Bill went before Congress. However, as usual, Congress was slow in its deliberations. The administration of Republican Ekklesia Preschool & Child Development Center President Warren G. Harding had already stated that it had “virtually decided Muscle Shoals Location to accept the Ford offer.” Wall Street and corporations such as the National New 103 BROAD ST. Fertilizer Association, Alabama Power, and the Air Nitrate Corporation opposed the Ford Bill. But finally, in June of 1922, the Ford Bill went before ders the House of Representatives, with Democratic Congressman Edward B. NON-TRADITIONAL HOURS: 4:30AM - 7PM a Almon of Alabama calling for its acceptance. Finally, in March of 1924, For More Info: 256-314-1700 ch is the Ford Bill passed the House by a vote of 227 to 142. However Ford’s RegistRation Fee: $85 Alabama 3-5 YRs: plans were defeated in the Senate due to the untiring efforts of Republican Ft: $128 Pt: $64 Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, who did not believe a complex such 0-3 YRs: High-Quality not as the Muscle Shoals should be in private hands but instead developed by Full-time: $141 Pre-K student age: the Classrooms in Ft: $107 Pt: $53.50 m. the Federal Government. Norris had an alternate vision which included PaRt-time: $70.50 all locations Ekklesia Day Care development of the entire Tennessee River as a resource for all taxpayers, Ekklesia Preschool Child Center 7:30am-2:30pm 401 W college St. florence including not only power but also navigation, forestry, and agriculture. Thus 3007 HatcH Blvd, SHeffield the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) was born, but not until eleven years 256-314-1194 TUITION IS 256-284-7705 FREE! later—1933, after Franklin D. Roosevelt was elected president. Until that dle TIMEth w. her h MATH. si- 2. Old MacDonald had a farm. On this farm he had 3 ducks, 15 chickens, 4 mice, 17 cows, age 1. What is the largest three-digit number 5 horses and 2 dogs. How many legs and wings Anna can make using these number tiles? were on his 46 animals? he3 8ob- LEGS ell, 4 WINGS on 5 2get ome. she fore What is the smallest three-digit num- er alk ber she can make? November 2021 Answers On Page 23 Kidsville News! 21 www.kidsvillenews.com/shoals

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