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Muscle Shoals, Colbert County, Alabama, USA – *No GPS coordinates

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On TVA Reservation in the Muscle Shoals, Alabama area there are mass graves that are unmarked and likely forgotten. During the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 it seems that workers at the two Nitrate Plants in Muscle Shoals,Alabama were affected by the Spanish Flu with a little more regularity than the population at large.

The government had bought many advertisements encouraging workers to come to the Nitrate Plants; a huge portion of their advertisements touted all the advantages for the Negro to come work at the plants. Men, women, and families from all over the country answered the call for workers and came to Muscle Shoals.

There were two hospitals on the grounds, one for whites and one for blacks. The Spanish Flu hit without warning and left just as quickly. I have read that blacks seemed to be more resistant to the flu than others. There was at least one cemetery on government property at TVA Reservation. The graves were not marked and more than two hundred souls are buried in the mass grave, some whose family could not afford to transport the body back home.

This virtual cemetery is to commemorate and document the loss of these souls, long forgotten. The persons enumerated here had no grave that could be located; information came from the Alabama Deaths 1908-1974 records.





On TVA Reservation in the Muscle Shoals, Alabama area there are mass graves that are unmarked and likely forgotten. During the Spanish Flu outbreak in 1918 it seems that workers at the two Nitrate Plants in Muscle Shoals,Alabama were affected by the Spanish Flu with a little more regularity than the population at large.

The government had bought many advertisements encouraging workers to come to the Nitrate Plants; a huge portion of their advertisements touted all the advantages for the Negro to come work at the plants. Men, women, and families from all over the country answered the call for workers and came to Muscle Shoals.

There were two hospitals on the grounds, one for whites and one for blacks. The Spanish Flu hit without warning and left just as quickly. I have read that blacks seemed to be more resistant to the flu than others. There was at least one cemetery on government property at TVA Reservation. The graves were not marked and more than two hundred souls are buried in the mass grave, some whose family could not afford to transport the body back home.

This virtual cemetery is to commemorate and document the loss of these souls, long forgotten. The persons enumerated here had no grave that could be located; information came from the Alabama Deaths 1908-1974 records.





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