Timeline

Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
Y/M/D Description Association Composition Place Locale Food Event
1943/03/00 Second Lieutenant, Philip C Leahy arrives in Grand Junction, CO, with orders from Lt Col Thomas T Crenshaw to find and secure "strategic minerals" from the Colorado Plateau. Work Denver and Rio Grande Western Railroad Depot Grand Junction
1943/03/23 Philip C Leahy establishes his headquarters at a newly purchased a $10,500, 55 acre gravel pit next to the Gunnison River and begins to build a new uranium refinery. Leahy uses the small log cabin as an office. Work Atomic Legacy Cabin Grand Junction Developing the Atomic Bomb
1946/03/00 By 1946, more than 2.6 million pounds of uranium oxide, about 14 percent of the total uranium in the Manhattan Project, have been extracted from various mins on the Colorado Plateau. Work Atomic Legacy Cabin Grand Junction Developing the Atomic Bomb
1947/00/00 Philip Leahy, now a civilian with the US Atomic Energy Commission (AEC), establishes the Colorado Raw Materials Office at the site of the Manhattan Project uranium refinery to explore and acquire uranium. The log cabin serves as his office. Work Atomic Legacy Cabin Grand Junction
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