<P> The development of the dams displaced more than 15,000 families . This created anti-TVA sentiment in some rural communities . Many local landowners were suspicious of government agencies . But TVA successfully introduced new agricultural methods into traditional farming communities by blending in and finding local champions . </P> <P> A Tennessee farmer would not take advice from an official in a suit and tie, so TVA officials had to find leaders in the communities and convince them that crop rotation and the judicious application of fertilizers could restore soil fertility . Once they had convinced the leaders, the rest followed . </P> <P> At its inception, TVA was based in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, but later moved its headquarters to Knoxville, Tennessee, where they remain today . At one point, TVA's headquarters were housed in the Old Federal Customs House at the corner of Clinch Avenue and Market Street . The building is now a museum . </P> <P> The Authority hired many area unemployed to conduct conservation, economic development, and social programs, such as a library service that operated for the surrounding area . The professional staff headquarters was composed of experts from outside the region . The workers were categorized by the usual racial and gender lines of the day . TVA hired a few African Americans for janitorial or other low - level positions . TVA recognized labor unions; its skilled and semi-skilled blue collar employees were unionized, a breakthrough in an area known for corporations hostile to miners' and textile workers' unions . Women were excluded from construction work . TVA's cheap electricity attracted textile mills to the area, and they hired mostly women as workers . </P>

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