Happy Valley, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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

Happy Valley was a construction camp of trailer homes and hutments at the Clinton Engineer Works of the Manhattan Project in the 1940s. It was located near the K-25 gaseous diffusion plant in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, to lessen travelling time for the seventeen thousand construction men working there.^[1]

The Happy Valley settlement was dismantled in the early 1950s.

Reference

1. ^ * Nichols, Kenneth; The Road to Trinity: A Personal Account of How America’s Nuclear Policies Were Made p. 127 (1987, Morrow, New York) ISBN 068806910X