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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 ...
Manhattan Project National Historical Park is a United States National Historical Park commemorating the Manhattan Project that is run jointly by the National Park Service and Department of Energy. The park consists of three units: one in Oak Ridge, Tennessee , one in Los Alamos, New Mexico and one in Hanford, Washington .
The George Jones Memorial Baptist Church, also known as the "Wheat Church," is a historic church building at the former site of the community of Wheat in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] It is the only structure remaining from Wheat, a rural Roane County community that was dissolved in 1942 when the United States government ...
The uranium was bought from Edgar Sengier in the Belgian Congo. The price was $1.60 a pound.
J. Robert Oppenheimer in the Guest House in 1946; photograph by Ed Westcott. The Alexander Inn, originally known as The Guest House and now the Alexander Guest House, is a historic building in Oak Ridge, Tennessee that was built during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors and that later was used as a hotel.
Col. Kenneth D. Nichols, district engineer for the Manhattan Engineer District, at the Oak Ridge Administration Office at the Federal Building, known as "The Castle On The Hill."
Oak Ridge or Oakridge may refer to numerous locations in English-speaking countries - the most well-known being Oak Ridge, Tennessee, due to its part in the Manhattan Project. These and other meanings include:
Happy Valley was a construction camp of trailer homes and hutments at the Clinton Engineer Works of the Manhattan Project in the 1940s. It was located near the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge , Tennessee , to lessen travelling time for the seventeen thousand construction men working there.