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Margaret “Peggy” Dickson

ChildOak Ridge, TN

Family Member of Manhattan Project Veteran
Peggy Dickson ID Read Memories of Oak Ridge During WWII by Peggy Dickson

Peggy Dickson moved to Oak Ridge in the fall of 1944, when she was 14 years old. Her father, Charles Russell Dickson, Sr., worked on the Manhattan Project for Tennessee Eastman Corporation.

Margaret “Peggy” Dickson’s Timeline
1944 Moved to Oak Ridge, TN.

Peggy Dickson ID

Front page of Oak Ridge High football pamphlet

Oak Ridge High basketball season ticketv

From Oak Ridge High’s yearbook

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