Philip C Leahy
American
Architect - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
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| US Army Corps of Engineers |
Architect - AsNotedIn
| Notable Position | Organization | From | To |
|---|---|---|---|
| US Army Corps of Engineers |
| 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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