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Oak Ridge, the secret city
1942
Oak Ridge, Tennessee
Brian Stansberry · CC BY 3.0 · Wikimedia Commons
The government took 60,000 acres and built a city of 75,000 that appeared on no map, behind fences with its own buses, schools and cinemas. Almost nobody working there knew what it was for. They learned from the radio in August 1945.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: historic site
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