Rare historic footage surfaces of 1961 Wheeler Lock collapse
This is a view of the collapsed lock wall taken June 6, 1961, at Wheeler Lock on the Tennessee River in Rogersville, Alabama. The photo was included in a TVA report titled “Wheeler Lock Failure” written in November 1961. The report concluded that a thin seam of clay located within a shale band in the bedrock caused the failure. (TVA Photo)

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