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Lock Six, the headquarters of Muscle Shoals Canal, was located 1.3 miles south of here. An 1836 attempt to build a bypass canal around the shoals proved unsuccessful. On November 10, 1890 the canal from Rogersville to Florence was successfully completed. The river fell 85 feet in 14½ miles, requiring nine locks. The canal closed in 1918 and was later covered by backwaters from Wilson and Wheeler Dams. Jesse James robbed the U.S. payroll near Lock Six in 1881.
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Killen, Alabama · United States
