Historical Marker
Bean-Roulston Graveyard
Historical marker location:
South Pittsburg, Tennessee
( Marker is on North Cedar Avenue (U.S. 72) south of Sweetens Cove Road, on the right when traveling south.)
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.