Julia Maestas

ChildLos Alamos, NM

Hispano/a

Listen to Julia Maestas’s Oral History on Voices of the Manhattan Project

Dr. Julia Maestas is the granddaughter of Manuel Maestas, a homesteader at Los Alamos, and daughter of Elipio Maestas, who worked as a civil guard for the Corps of Engineers at Los Alamos. She attended first grade at Los Alamos in an Army building during the Manhattan Project.

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