Sweetwater Branch

Historical marker location:

Waynesboro, Tennessee

( Marker is on Natchez Trace Parkway (at milepost 363), 7 miles south of Waynesboro Highway (U.S. 64), on the left when traveling north.)

The first self-made female millionaire in the United States was Sarah Breedlove, also known as Madam C.J. Walker. She was born on a plantation near Delta, Tennessee, in 1867.