Oak Ridge High School
Oak Ridge High School is the public high school for Oak Ridge, Tennessee, enrolling grades 9 through 12. It was established in 1943 to educate the children of Manhattan Project workers.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: School
- Description: American public high school in Tennessee
- Also known as: “Oak Ridge High School, Tennessee” and “ORHS”
- Address: 1450 Oak Ridge Turnpike, Oak Ridge, 37830
Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include American Museum of Science and Energy.
American Museum of Science and Energy
Museum
Photo: BrineStans, CC BY 3.0.
The American Museum of Science and Energy is a science museum in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, designed to teach children and adults about energy, especially nuclear power, and to document the role Oak Ridge played in the Manhattan Project. American Museum of Science and Energy is situated 2,700 feet east of Oak Ridge High School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oak Ridge and Robertsville.
Oak Ridge
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Oak Ridge is a city in Tennessee. Oak Ridge was created as secret city during World War II as part of the Manhattan Project. In Oak Ridge, thousands worked in secrecy to enrich the uranium used in the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan.
Robertsville
Hamlet
Robertsville was a farming community in Anderson County, Tennessee, that was disbanded in 1942 when the area was acquired for the Manhattan Project. Its site is now part of the city of Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Marlow
Hamlet
Marlow is an unincorporated community in Anderson County, Tennessee. Marlow is in the valley of Poplar Creek, between Clinton to the northeast and Oliver Springs to the southwest. Oak Ridge is south of Marlow. Marlow is situated 3½ miles north of Oak Ridge High School.
Oak Ridge High School
- Categories: high school, music venue, and education
- Location: Anderson, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
36.01553° or 36° 0′ 56″ northLongitude
-84.26131° or 84° 15′ 41″ westElevation
899 feet (274 metres)Operator
Oak Ridge SchoolsOpen location code
868Q2P8Q+6FOpenStreetMap ID
way 475568700OpenStreetMap feature
amenity=schoolGeoNames ID
4646580Wikidata ID
Q7073699
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In Other Languages
From French to Swedish—“Oak Ridge High School” goes by many names.
- French: “Oak Ridge High School”
- Hebrew: “תיכון אוק רידג‘”
- Japanese: “オーク・リッジ高等学校”
- Swedish: “Oak Ridge High School”
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