On this day in 1943 Colonel James C. Marshall, a military engineer, announced that housing would be built for employees of the Clinton Engineer Works who were working on a federal facility in Anderson County, Tennessee. This followed a report that Tennessee Eastman Company of Kingsport, Tennessee, would set up a village on the site, along with a fire department and other necessities for a small town. <\/p>\n
The Eastman Corporation, headquartered in Rochester, New York, had agreed to enter into a contract with the War Department to operate \u201ca big government plant\u201d on the land in east Tennessee.<\/p>\n
That village went on to become Oak Ridge, and the \u201cbig government plant\u201d developed the world\u2019s first working atomic bombs.<\/p>\n
(Map of Manhattan Project plants in Tennessee by Arthur S. Hardyman – Jones, Manhattan: The Army and the Bomb, p. 48, Public Domain, https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/w\/index.php?curid=37978544)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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