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By Tom Bosse, December 30, 2017
The Birth of the City of Oak Ridge, Tennessee Marker
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| On South Tulane Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In wartime 1943, realizing that unhappiness with living conditions would imperil the already fragile prognosis for producing uranium-235, the Army overseers of Oak Ridge strove to make life as pleasant as possible for the uprooted professionals sent . . . — — Map (db m112457) HM |
| On South Tulane Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | What most branded Oak Ridge as a temporary wartime community was its housing, almost half of which was added in a great rush during 1944-1945 as the town grew to five times the originally planned population of 13,000. Many thousands of the later . . . — — Map (db m112458) HM |
| On South Tulane Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | At the same time the Government was starting large construction programs in 1948 to build permanent housing, work started to replace the hurriedly built wartime schools. The first permanent school finished was Willowbrook Elementary in September . . . — — Map (db m112459) HM |
| On South Tulane Avenue, on the right when traveling south. |
| | In 1948, the Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) assigned the task of transforming the “Secret City” into an incorporated city to Frederick W. “Fred” Ford, the AEC’s new Community Affairs Director. In addition to managing the . . . — — Map (db m112460) HM |
May. 3, 2024