Clinton Engineer Works

Original Vintage Card
  
Sale Price: $9.95
Original Price: $15.95

Stock #:609986
Type: Postcard
Era: Linen
City: Oak Ridge
State: Tennessee (TN)
County: Roane,Anderson
Publisher: Western News Agency
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)

Additional Details:
A View of one of the Processing Areas at "The City of the Atomic Bomb" - Located 18 miles west of Knoxville, Oak Ridge grew from nothing to the fifth largest city in Tennessee during World War II with a population of nearly 75,000. Now, one of America's historic cities, it will ever remain associated with the greatest secret project of the War. The Clinton Engineer Works, of which Oak Ridge is a part, covers a huge Government Reservation of 59,000 acres. The plants where raw materials is separated by different methods, include more than 425 buildings.

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