Even by Depression standards, the Tennessee Valley was in bad shape when FDR signed the act that created the TVA on this day in 1933. Malaria remained rampant in some 30 percent of the population.

The 2021 budget aims to sell off assets like BPA in the Northwest and TVA in the Southeast, ... employing thousands of workers during the Great Depression and performing well for over 80 years. TVA.

T he Trump administration fired the chair of the Tennessee Valley Authority Board of Directors, ... TVA is a federally owned and self-funded utility created by Congress during the Great Depression.

To help lift the Tennessee Valley out of the Great Depression, TVA built dams for flood control, provided low-cost power and commercial shipping, restored depleted lands, ...

During the Great Depression, TVA's first mission was to harness the power of the Tennessee River while preventing floods. In the 1940s, ...

The TVA was first established to essentially act a modernization project to develop one of the regions of the US hardest hit by the Great Depression, as part of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s ...

At the height of the Great Depression, TVA brought electricity to the Tennessee Valley, a rural, 41,000-square-mile region that touches parts of seven states. To achieve this feat, ...

The TVA quilts, as they are called, have been documented in books, including “Soft Covers for Hard Times: Quiltmaking & the Great Depression” (1990) by Merikay Waldvogel.