Red Oak Creek Covered Bridge

This bridge was built in the 1840s by freed slave and noted bridge builder Horace King (1807-1885). Constructed on the Town lattice design, the bridge’s web of planks crisscrossing at 45- to 60-degree angles are fastened at each intersection with ...

National Historic Landmark- X-10 Graphite Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

National Historic Landmark- X-10 Reactor, Oak Ridge National Laboratory

When it went into operation on November 4, 1943, this was the world's first full-scale nuclear reactor and the first to produce significant amounts of heat energy and measurable amounts of plutonium; ...

Oak Ridge Cemetery

This cemetery contains the remains of at least 105 Confederate soldiers and veterans, including Madison Starke Perry, Governor of Florida from October 1857 to October 1861. This includes the Confederate Section of the cemetery, which contains 31 graves with markers ...

Oak Ridge National Laboratory

Nestled between the Clinton River and the Appalachian Mountains, twenty-five miles from Knoxville,Tennessee, Oak Ridge National Laboratory developed key atomic materials during World War II and the Cold War.

In 1943, the United States government usurped fifty-nine thousand acres to ...

Oak Ridge

In 1943, Oak Ridge was created as the residential center for the Clinton Engineering Works. Located on the northeast corner of a 59,000-acre reservation acquired by the government in 1942, the community was designed by Skidmore, Owings, and Merrill. Architects, ...

Oak Ridge World War Monument

In honor of the men of Oak Ridge who went forth at the call of their country to serve in the World War 1917 – 1919

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Ernest Angle

George Beatty

George Buntzen

Charles S. Coursen

David Cole ...

Oak Ridge Public School

Opened 1925

The Oak Ridge Public School had a capacity for 123 students and served grades 1-8. The structure contained six classrooms and had two indoor flush toilets, but no cafeteria or gymnasium. The center of the original building included a ...

Oak Ridge Institute

First building erected 1851-52. Opened during academic year 1852-53. Since 1929 Oak Ridge Military Institute.

Marker is on Oak Ridge Road 0.3 miles east of Route 68, on the left when traveling east.

Courtesy hmdb.org

Oak Ridge Estates

About two miles east is Oak Ridge, a 4,800-acre estate first patented in the 1730s. Robert Rives (1764-1845), a tobacco planter and international trader, built his house there in 1802. In 1867, William Porcher Miles (1822-1899), a former Confederate congressman, ...