Happy Valley, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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For the Blount County community adjacent to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, see Happy Valley, Tennessee.

Happy Valley was a worker encampment, located near the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, that housed K-25 construction workers during the 1940s. At one time, it housed nearly 15,000 individuals in trailer homes and hutments. The Happy Valley settlement was dismantled in the early 1950s.

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