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From: "Barbara Kesterson" <>
Subject: [TNMONROE-L] Kingston Demolition Range Photo Workshop
Date: Thu, 01 May 2003 08:30:56 +0800


Kingston Demolition Range Photo Workshop

Pellissippi Genealogical & Historical Society{PGHS}
anounces the upcoming release and sale of the first two CD-ROM volumes of its "KINGSTON DEMOLITION RANGE PHOTOS BEFORE 1942."

The workshop event will be held Saturday, May 24, 2003 from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. noon at Clinton Senior School Cafeteria, 425 Dragon Drive, Clinton,Tennessee.
The photos cover the lost communties and farms that now make up Oak Ridge, K-25, Y-12, X 10 and the newest Spallation Neutron Source.

The photographs, taken by Army Corps of Engineers, cover the homeplaces and buildings removed in 1924-43 for the Manhattan Project.
The originals are now held by the National Archives and Records Administration in Atlanta and have never before been distributed in this
Re: format for the interest of historians and the interested public.

In late 2002 with a funding grant fronm BXWT Y-12, LLC, the PGHS began a year-long project to retrieve the photographs, convert them to digital format and reproduce them on CD-ROM.

The event will feature:
Keynote Speaker: Donald Raby, Project Chairman
Photograph Copying Demonstration
Property Location Maps
Surname Index of all families removed from Oak Ridge Reservation.
Sale of Volumes 1 and 2 on CD-Rom

For additional information, contact the:
Pellissippi Genealogical & Historical Society
118 South Hicks Street Clinton, TN. 37716
c/o Donald Raby

or phone-865-688-2679

Please also visit our website;
http//pghs.home.att.net


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