Historical Marker

Ernest Walter Holmes, Sr.

Historical marker location:
318 Market Street, Chattanooga, Tennessee
( Marker is on Market Street (U.S. 127) near East 3rd Street, on the right when traveling north.)

1883–1945.

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.
Tennessee random facts