what impact did the tva have on the people and the land?
TVA reservoirs promoted recreation, and TVA land helped initiate Alabama's state park system. In 1947, it transferred 4,000 acres of land to the state for Little Mountain State Park on Guntersville Reservoir and in 1952 transferred 1,981 acres for the creation of Joe Wheeler State Park.
The Tennessee Valley Authority ( TVA ) is a federallyowned corporation that was created by congressional charter in May1933 to provide navigation, flood control, electricity, fertilizermanufacturing and economic development in the Tennessee Valley, aregion particularly affected by the Great Depression.