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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 […]

Robert Geffel was born to John Geffel Sr. and Theresa (Logidice) Geffel who had come to Oak Ridge in 1943. He was one of two sons. His brother John was the eldest. They both graduated from Westinghouse High School in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania building their father had helped build. He later became a manager and drummer […]

Mathias (“Matthew”) Antone Thennes was born in 1895. He served in WW1 with the 39th Division, 153rd Regiment, in France. He was a skilled carpenter and spent two years constructing and maintaining the buildings at Oak Ridge, some military and some civilian. He also worked at the Ammunition Depot inside the “Secret City” at Oak […]

Madonna Elaine Thennes was in born 1925. When she had just graduated from high school in Pocahontas, Arkansas, in 1943, her father told her the military had good-paying jobs for civilians in a new place in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. She applied, was hired, and worked in the “typing pool” of women who typed up documents for […]