Wheeler Lake, Alabama History

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1540 - Hernando DeSoto and Entourage - First Europeans to Enter the Coosa Valley

1717 - The French Arrive to Build Fort Toulouse Overlooking the Coosa and Tallapoosa

1845 - First Steamboat on the Coosa River

1933 - Construction of Wheeler Dam

1935 - Auburn University Honoree Worked on Construction of Wheeler Dam

1936 - Completion of Wheeler Dam

1938 - The origins of Popeye the Sailor

1938 - U.S. Army Corps of Engineers - Inspection Fatality

1961 - Wheeler Dam Lock Collapses Killing 2 People

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