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January 08, 2018

Knoxville, Tennessee

Since the mid-1930s, the Big Dog in Knoxville has been the federally-owned Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA), America's biggest public power provider. $11.8 billion annually with 12,000 employees. TVA's service area: Tennessee, parts of Alabama, Mississippi and Kentucky, and smaller pieces of Georgia, North Carolina and Virginia.

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Knoxville from the south bank of the Tennessee River after the end of Siege of Knoxville. Photo: George N. Barnard, December 1863.

Posted by Holden Oliver (Kitzbühel Desk) at 11:29 PM | Comments (0)