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Guntersville Dam Guntersville Dam on the Tennessee River, near Guntersville, Alabama.

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Alabama, United States
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Guntersville, city, seat (1836) of Marshall county, northeastern Alabama, U.S., on Guntersville Lake, about 35 miles (55 km) southeast of Huntsville. First settled about 1785 by John Gunter (for whom it was named) on the site of a Cherokee village at the southernmost point of the Tennessee River, it developed as a transfer port for goods being shipped south. Completion (1939) of Guntersville Dam (7 miles [11 km] northwest) on the Tennessee stimulated industrialization. The...

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