Archive Exhibit Tells TN River's History

TENNESSEE RIVER IN LIMESTONE COUNTY FEATURED IN EXHIBIT
AT LIMESTONE COUNTY ARCHIVES

​ATHENS, Ala. – In 1966, barges began landing on the same muddy Tennessee River bank in Limestone County where natives once fished and where a man named Brown once ferried passengers across the river, to unload supplies to build what at that time would be the world’s largest nuclear power plant, the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Browns Ferry Nuclear Plant.

Photos from the Limestone County Archives collection of that building process from...

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