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Oak Ridge Historic District (also known as Clinton Engineer Works Townsite) is a historic district in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, that is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Roughly bounded by East Drive, Outer and West Outer Drives, Louisiana Avenue, and Tennessee Avenue, the district comprises much of Oak Ridge's original Manhattan ...
Oak Ridge is a city in Anderson and Roane counties in the eastern part of the U.S. state of Tennessee, about 25 miles (40 km) west of downtown Knoxville. Oak Ridge's population was 31,402 at the 2020 census. [9] It is part of the Knoxville Metropolitan Area. Oak Ridge's nicknames include the Atomic City, [10] the Secret City, [11] and the City ...
Calutron Girls photographed by Ed Westcott at their calutron control panels at Y-12. The Calutron Girls were a group of young women—mostly high school graduates—who had joined the Manhattan Project at the Y-12 National Security Complex located at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, from 1943 to 1945.
She will be attending the 6 p.m. May 29 performance in Oak Ridge at the Historic Grove Theatre, 123 Randolph Road. Tickets can be purchased on Eventbrite.com or at TNBank, 401 S. Illinois Ave.
In December 1942, the Army Corps transferred the 20-year-old Westcott to the Clinton Engineer Works at the then-secret Oak Ridge site. [5] He later recalled that: By November 1942, work was nearing completion on army camps, air bases, dams and enemy internment camps in seven southern states where I photographed many areas for site selection and construction progress reports for the US Corps of ...
The Freel Farm Mound is located on the U.S. Department of Energy's Oak Ridge Reservation. The site is currently inundated by Melton Hill Lake. [freelfarm 2] At the time of excavation the mound was located on the William Freel farm 2 miles southeast of Scarboro, Tennessee.
There are over 2,000 in total. Of these, 29 are National Historic Landmarks. Each of Tennessee's 95 counties has at least one listing. The Tennessee Historical Commission, which manages the state's participation in the National Register program, reports that 80 percent of the state's area has been surveyed for historic buildings. Surveys for ...
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