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Swallow Bluff Island

Coordinates: 35°23′21″N 88°09′52″W / 35.389243°N 88.164479°W / 35.389243; -88.164479
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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 home construction, damaging the mound in the process.[2]

References

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  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Swallow Bluff Island
  2. ^ a b 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. ISBN 9780893080976.
  4. ^ Moore, Clarence Bloomfield (1915). Aboriginal Sites on Tennessee River. na. p. 208.

35°23′21″N 88°09′52″W / 35.389243°N 88.164479°W / 35.389243; -88.164479