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Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, the driving force behind the selection of Hanford as a key component in developing the atomic bomb during World War II, had strong ties to the Pacific Northwest. The man who built Hanford DANVILLE, Calif. - The television is left on most of the time. 'We were in such shock': 30-day notices pushed off farmers who settled a desert DeWitt Buckholdt surveyed the 30 acres of bunch grass that had lured him out of the hardware business and into moving 3,000 miles to a valley above the Columbia River. Towns yield to war: Hanford built on homesteads Back in 1942, Walt Grisham said goodbye to his folks, took a last walk around the farm where he was raised near White Bluffs and went off to war. Making room for an Atomic Age There was nothing remarkable about the 21st day of February in 1943, no hint of the upheaval to come. Farmers followed Indians, traders to bluffs beside Columbia A thousand years before Lewis and Clark arrived in 1805, Indians had made the shores of the Columbia River - from Priest Rapids to the modern town of Richland - a place to fish and spend the winter. Natural assets brought the war effort to Hanford One winter morning in 1942, Lt. Col. Franklin Matthias boarded a train at Washington's Union Station, not far from his Pentagon office. The birth of Hanford: Fateful flight selects site Fifty years ago today, a small military observation plane flew over the Horse Heaven Hills and along the Columbia River. |
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