Swallow Bluff Island

Swallow Bluff Island is a river island on the Tennessee River in the U.S. state of Tennessee.[1] The island is 69 acres (28 ha) in size.[2] The island was named for the swallows which congregated there.[3]

Swallow Bluff Island contains the ancient Swallow Bluff Island Mounds.[4] The state of Tennessee sued a developer who in 1999 razed parts of the island for new homes construction, damaging the mound in the process.[2]

References
  1. U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Swallow Bluff Island
  2. Wood, Nicki Pendleton. "New owner of Swallow Bluff Island already in court". Nashville Post. Retrieved 25 January 2018.
  3. History of Tennessee from the Earliest Time to the Present. Southern Historical Press. 1886. p. 829.
  4. Moore, Clarence Bloomfield (1915). Aboriginal Sites on Tennessee River. na. p. 208.


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