Ohio at Chickamauga

Historical marker location:

Chattanooga, Tennessee

( Marker is on South Crest Road, 0.1 miles south of Ridge Road, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1908

September 18 - 21, 1863.

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.