Title: Drowned towns: What traces of 'ghost' cities lie beneath Alabama's man-made lakes? - al.com
Headings: Drowned towns: What traces of 'ghost' cities lie beneath Alabama's man-made lakes?
Drowned towns: What traces of 'ghost' cities lie beneath Alabama's man-made lakes?
Relocating people, roads, towns, cemeteries
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Content: Because of that, TVA workers were thoroughly trained and were particularly sensitive to a family's wishes, TVA historian Pat Ezzell said. "Basically TVA had a very strong family relocation program," she said. " They would go out and they would determine what the pool level was going to be and which folks were going to be impacted by the reservoir. They were offered fair market value for their homes and land." However, many people did not own the land. " One of the problems was, a lot of people were tenant farmers. So TVA worked to find homes for these families - for tenant farmers and landowners. It was a huge effort to find housing for these folks." Relocation forms show each family's household information was recorded, along with their wishes to move the house, or leave it to be dismantled or destroyed. Of one thing, Ezzell is sure: "