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The Secret City Commemorative Walk |
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The Secret City Commemorative Walk will provide an attractive, permanent, low-maintenance, self-guided, landscaped area featuring a series of plaques and markers that will commemorate and honor the founders by telling a little of the Secret City story. The walk will be placed in the east end of A. K. Bissell Park, fronting on the Turnpike and Tulane Avenue. This location is easily accessible, close to the American Museum of Science and Energy, adjacent to our new shopping center and visible to visitors and citizens alike.
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Honoring Those Who Built the Secret City |
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| The Concept: An outdoor, easily-visited, quiet, attractive, permanent, memorial history walk located in the east end of Bissell Park. The Secret City Commemorative Walk is created for present and future citizens, visitors, and tourists. It is intended to enable them to remember, honor, and learn some of the story of those who came here to Oak Ridge from all over the Country. They came to found the city, build the plants, and serve our Nation during WWII and its early peacetime days, 1942 to 1949 | The Need: There is no outdoor, center-city memorial that honors and tells the story of the over 100,000 people who built and operated the town and the pioneering facilities they built - our city's unique history. Within another ten years there will be no survivors to tell about those days first-hand or to help to create such a memorial. Such a project appeals to Rotary's object of Community Service. |
| Implementation Plan: Rotary International, our club's parent organization, will be celebrating 100 years of service to their communities and to the world in February 2005, and our Club is making this gift of a Secret City Commemorative Walk as their Centennial Project. | The Design: A tree-shaded (Willow Oaks), attractive, permanent, low-maintenance, self-guided, landscaped area featuring a series of plaques and markers that commemorate and honor the founders by telling visitors the early history story on two levels of understanding - What was done here and how it felt to live and work here. |
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