E. H. Phelps Memorial Monument

Historical marker location:

312 North Crest Road, Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on North Crest Road north of Crest Terrace Drive.)

Marker installed: 1908

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.