Epperson Springs

Historical marker location:

9695 Epperson Springs Road, Westmoreland, Tennessee

( Marker is on Epperson Springs Road, 0.2 miles west of Tooley Branch Road, on the left when traveling west.)

Resort and Wartime Enlistment Center.

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.