Oak Ridge
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Format: Paperback Language: English ISBN: 0738541702 ISBN13: 9780738541709 Release Date: October 2005 Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC) Length: 128 Pages Weight: 0.70 lbs. Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.7" x 9.2" A town with a significant place in American history as the Birthplace of the Atomic Bomb, this pictorial history takes a visual journey pre-war and post.Nestled in the foothills of East Tennessee, 25 miles west of Knoxville, is a small town bordered on three sides by the Clinch River. The land first existed under other names - Elza, Robertsville, Scarboro, and Wheat - but in 1942, 59,000 acres of this unassuming rural land were transformed in a matter of weeks into a "secret city" that became known as the mysterious Manhattan District. As a direct result of the letter written by Albert Einstein to President Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1939, the Manhattan District was created to develop new atomic weapons. Finally named Oak Ridge in 1943 and now thriving with a popula

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