Talk:Oak Ridge, Tennessee

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I made several changes to this page based on information I gathered as a geographic historian in Oak Ridge (for the University of Tennessee) during the 1990s. Among other edits, I changed the figure of "100,000 workers" to "70,000 residents". One bit of information that still needs clarifying is the number of residents in the Oak Ridge section of town (i.e., not in the construction camps) during World War II. I opted for a conservative but perhaps not very helpful figure of "more than 20,000." Does anyone have better information to clarify this number? --Milton Stanley

I am probably responsible for the POV check and am perfectly willing to re-edit, if someone will be kind enough to tell me what exactly is objectionable. --Lockley 19:52, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

Okay, in the absense of any specific complaint, I'm making the following change and deleting the NPOV tag. I'm changing: "That dramatic population increase, and the secret nature of the project, meant chronic shortages of housing and supplies. The experience of many worker-residents of Oak Ridge was living in a makeshift "Victory Cottage" on the side of a hill, standing in line for food, and working at a job they weren't allowed to talk about." to: "That dramatic population increase, and the secret nature of the project, meant chronic shortages of housing and supplies during the war years." Further comment welcome. --Lockley 22:26, 3 Jun 2005 (UTC)

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