Highland View Park

Highland View Park is a park in Anderson, Tennessee. Highland View Park is situated nearby to Oak Ridge Children’s Museum, as well as near the trailhead North Ridge Trail Greenway.

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include American Museum of Science and Energy and Oak Ridge High School.

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 1¼ miles southeast of Highland View Park.

Oak Ridge High School

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. Oak Ridge High School is situated 3,800 feet southeast of Highland View Park.

Alexander Inn

Social service facility

Photo: doe-oakridge, Public domain.

The Alexander Inn, originally known as The Guest House and now the Alexander Guest House, is a historic building in Oak Ridge, Tennessee that was built during the Manhattan Project to house official visitors and that later was used as a hotel. Alexander Inn is situated 1½ miles east of Highland View Park.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Robertsville and Oak Ridge.

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.

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.

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 3 miles northeast of Highland View Park.

Highland View Park

Type: Park
Category: recreation area
Location: Anderson, Tennessee, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

36.02306° or 36° 1′ 23″ north

Longitude

-84.2704° or 84° 16′ 13″ west

Open location code

868Q2PFH+6R

OpenStreetMap ID

way 553170369

OpenStreetMap feature

leisure=park

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