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John P. Crisp, from Robbinsville, NC, helped construct the K-25 plant in Oak Ridge while working for the G.G. Ray Company. During his time in Oak Ridge, he met and later married Dorortha “Dot” Hogan, who was working as a chemical operator, better known as a “Calutron Girl” at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge. […]

Dorotha “Dot” Hogan Crisp, from Midway in Greene County, TN, began working for Tennessee Eastman Corporation as a cubicle operator, better known as a “Calutron Girl,” at the Y-12 plant in Oak Ridge in 1944, before transferring to the Y-12 personnel office as a clerical assistant in 1945. First living in an Oak Ridge dormitory, […]

Born in Washington County, Ky., on November 22, 1902, Harvey C. Parrott grew up on a farm but loved to travel as a young man. He married Nantie Belle Crews in Chicago, IL, on September 4th, 1928, and had one daughter, Nancy Crews Parrott Dougan. He worked at several different kinds of jobs while he moved around […]

George Howard Barrows was born on February 27, 1899. A native of Pawtucket, Rhode Island, Colonel Barrows enlisted in the CavalrySquadron of the Rhode Island National Guard in 1916 at age 17 and served with General Pershing’s Mexican Border Campaign. He re-enlisted in the 26th “Yankee Division” of the United States Army in 1917, sailing […]

This map contains the important locations of the offices, control centers, mines, mills, plants, laboratories, and test sites of the U.S. nuclear complex from the early 1940s to the present.  It was assembled by Dr. Frank Settle, Professor of Chemistry, Emeritus at Washington and Lee University in Lexington, VA, from two sources: The Traveler’s Guide to Nuclear […]

Sylvia Brown Feinberg completed her RN at Mercy College in Detroit and later worked as a nurse in the Hospital in Oak Ridge. She married George Feinberg in 1943.

George Feinberg was born to immigrant parents in Detroit on September 22, 1916. He earned his Bachelor of Science in Chemistry at Wayne University. He was then sent by the Army to Ann Arbor to earn a Masters in Chemical Engineering at the University of Michigan and then began to work at Oak Ridge. There […]

Ethel “Makey” Jane Moran was born on November 16th 1878 in Queron, Loire Inferior, France to William Lewis Morgan a Welsh man; and Catherine Ann Reece, and English woman. She and her three sisters traveled the world with their father who was a metallurgist opening mines. She married Charles Gilbert Sperry Sr on 12 Sept […]

Leland L. “Doc” Loach was born in Dunlap, Tennessee in 1907. He was a father of three, one of four brothers, and a magician to many. He was in the Navy, the Army Service Forces- Corps of Engineers, a Chiropractor, and a Land Developer. He developed Chula Vista on the outskirts of Ft. Lauderdale after […]

George Washington Stoker was born to Fred and Katharine Stoker on February 22, 1896, in Manitowoc, Wisconsin. He was a WWI veteran and amongst an early group of engineers to work on the Atomic Bomb. He first entered the service on June 22, 1918, at Minneapolis, assigned to Company F, 311 Engineers Camp Grant, and […]