Location: North East Alabama along the banks of the Tennessee River, 90 miles north of Birmingham, 150 miles south of Nashville, 40 miles south east of Huntsville and 150 miles north west of Atlanta.
In 1939 the Tennessee Valley Authority completed the Guntersville Dam and its reservoir, filled with water and made Guntersville a peninsula city. Guntersville itself is an exciting, thriving community. The scenery is breathtaking, and with its 69,700-acre lake every weekend is a vacation. [www.marshallco.org, accessed October, 2011]
Guntersville was designated the county seat of Marshall County in 1848.