Happy Valley, Oak Ridge, Tennessee

For other places in Tennessee with the same name, see Happy Valley, Tennessee (disambiguation).
Aerial view of the K-25 site circa 1945, showing Happy Valley in the foreground

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.

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