Manhattan Project Archives - Appalachian History

He removed his eyeglasses and lit the pipe by focusing light through the glasses

“Memories of farm life pleasant for Chestnut Ridge resident,” by Charlie Smith, Oak Ridge National Laboratory Reporter, October 2007

When the U.S. Army came to what is now Oak Ridge, TN in 1942 with the Manhattan Project, 1,000 families on 56,000 plus acres had to be moved.

The Project itself was a massive endeavor, but the physical place itself is on such a large scale it cannot be truly understood unless in person.

John Norris Brown’s new book, ‘Harriman (Images of America)’ presents a photographic history of Harriman, TN, a temperance town.

Jane Puckett Greer did her part for the U.S. war effort in the 1940s, including her work with the top-secret Manhattan Project.