National Library Week- Library and Oak Ridge History Facts

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Across
  1. 4. The information center of a library.
  2. 6. Advocate of preserving Oak Ridge's history and known for his bowties.
  3. 9. Opened in 1965 this is a common place to hike and is also an educational and forest research center.
  4. 10. Record low temperature recorded here in Oak Ridge in 1985.
  5. 13. This school was closed in 1982 by the Board of Education.
  6. 14. Festival held every year to celebrate the city of Oak Ridge.
  7. 15. K-25 used this type of method for enrichment of Uranium.
  8. 17. Dropped on Hiroshima on August 6, 1945
  9. 20. Year Y-12 construction begins.
Down
  1. 1. This hotel also known as the guest house was opened in 1943
  2. 2. American librarian inventor of the Dewey Decimal system.
  3. 3. Japanese bell in pavillion near Oak Ridge Civic Center.
  4. 5. Physicist who received a share in the Nobel Peace Prize in Physics in 1963 the other half of the award was shared with Maria Goeppert-Mayer and J. Hans D. Jensen.
  5. 7. Oldest hardware store in Oak Ridge.
  6. 8. Year that Oak Ridgers vote to build new Civic Center and Library.
  7. 11. Opened in 1944 here in Oak Ridge.
  8. 12. This is an iconic restaurant located near Blakenship field in Oak Ridge.
  9. 16. Element discovered by international team of scientists including those at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
  10. 17. This library was founded in 1800 making it the oldest federal cultural institution and is the largest library in the world.
  11. 18. Construction begins in 1960 on this dam.
  12. 19. This man was head of the Manhattan Project.
  13. 21. Photographer employed by U.S. government during the Manhattan project.