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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24DV_1946_Oak-Ridge-TN.html
This was the world's first fully peacetime year since 1938. Cities everywhere began struggling to change things back to normal; Oak Ridge was different - we had never been normal. Things here were also in a state of flux because the success of the…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24DU_1947_Oak-Ridge-TN.html
Although many residents still felt Oak Ridge was a wartime town, they were now encouraged to view their city as possibly becoming a permanent community. This transition was kicked off January 1 when the Manhattan Engineering District handed off co…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24DT_1948_Oak-Ridge-TN.html
Union Carbide agreed to manage X-10 as well as the Y-12 plant with their new defense mission, and the K-25 uranium enrichment plant. Carbide named Nelson Rucker as X-10 executive director who with Alvin Weinberg instilling a sense of stability as …
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM24DS_1949_Oak-Ridge-TN.html
On January 20 "The Oak Ridger" published its first edition. It told the city's stories for decades, like a favorite talk about colorful, hard-driving General Leslie Groves, Manhattan Engineering District commandant. When he had needed mi…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2487_clinton-high-school_Clinton-TN.html
Following a court order by Federal District Judge Robert L. Taylor, on August 27, 1956, 12 black students, now known as "The Clinton 12", enrolled in Clinton High School without incident, making it one of the first desegregated public high schools…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM2480_the-market-place-of-pearls_Clinton-TN.html
From about 1895 to 1936 Tennessee was one of the nation's six leading states in marketing pearls. Clinton was listed as one of three Tennessee towns known as centers of the pearling industry. New York dealers came regularly to Clinton during the p…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XMK_legacy-of-condy-harmon-historical_Briceville-TN.html
Powell Harmon wrote a farewell letter before suffocating in the Fraterville Mine in 1902 that said, "My boys, never work in the coal mines.: His eldest son, Briceville student Condy Harmon, knew that honoring such a request would subject his famil…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XMJ_miners-circle-cemetery-historical_Briceville-TN.html
Thirty-one of the 84 miners who perished in the December 9, 1911 explosion of the Cross Mountain Mine are buried in concentric circles around a monument beside Circle Cemetery Road. The arrangement of headstones may be rooted in the Welsh ancestry…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XMI_fraterville-disaster-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
The Fraterville Mine exploded on May 19, 1902, killing all 216 miners. Poignant farewell messages were found on the bodies of Jacob Vowell, Powell Harmon, John Hendren, Harry Beach, Scott Chapman, James Brooks, R.S. Brooks, George Hutson, Frank Sh…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1XME_itinerant-miners-cemetery-historical_Rocky-Top-TN.html
Itinerant miners worked in the Fraterville Mine alongside miners with long-term contracts and strong local ties. Bodies of the itinerant miners were not claimed after the 1902 explosion and were buried adjacent to the railroad spur that led to the…