1st Michigan Engineers

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is at the intersection of Ivy Street and Hawthorne Street, on the left when traveling east on Ivy Street.)

Marker installed: 1899

Army of the Cumberland. William P. Innes Colonel Commanding.

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.