Waverly Place

Historical marker location:

758 Benton Ave, Nashville, Tennessee

( Marker is on Benton Avenue just east of 8th Avenue South (U.S. 31), on the left when traveling east.)

Marker installed: 1976

Tennessee was the site of the first commercial nuclear power plant in the United States. The Tennessee Valley Authority's Watts Bar Nuclear Plant began operating in 1996 and remains in operation today.