Knoxville

Historical marker location:

300 Main Street Southwest, Knoxville, Tennessee

( Marker is on South Gay Street south of Main Street Southwest, on the right when traveling south.)

Marker installed: 1949

First Capital of Tennessee. 1796-1807, 1807-1812, 1817-1818.

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.