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...Ellenton, S.C. (pop. 700) was one of those backwater Southern villages where nothing much ever happened and the people liked it that way. Old families-the Ashleys, the Dunbars and the Foremans-made a living from their fields of peanuts and cotton. Aging Mike Cassels ran his rambling general store-"de long stoah," the Negroes called it. Sharecropper kids scampered and chickens pecked in the dust among the shacks and privies and chinaberry trees of the colored section...
...Washington made an announcement: 200,000 acres in the Savannah River valley had been chosen for the site of a $1,180,000,000 plant to manufacture tritium and other materials of atomic war. The 6,000 residents of the area would have to leave. The deadline for Ellenton: midnight...
...through swamp gum thickets that had sheltered some of the finest turkey and partridge coverts in the East, churned the rich red clay into a lifeless desert. Huge huts sprang up, weird cylindrical towers rose against the horizon. The first horde of an eventual 47,000 workers poured in. Ellenton began to pull itself up by the roots. A town called New Ellenton was started from scratch twelve miles away. Most of Ellenton's Negroes moved there, loading their old shacks on giant gooseneck trailer trucks. But the village's white residents scattered-"the D.P.s of World...
...target of this invading army is just beyond Ellenton: a 200,000-acre site spotted with hundreds of hustling trucks, steam shovels and cement mixers. There the steel skeleton of a headquarters building is already rising-the focus for sightseers who come from miles around to see what the Du Ponts are doing. What E. I. du Pont de Nemours is doing is worth considerable attention. It is building the Government's $600 million plant to make the components for the hydrogen bomb. "You can't tell no lies about this thing," said an awestruck sharecropper. "This thing...
...growing bigger by the day. By next month, the headquarters will be ready for Du Pont's field commanders, now bossing the operation from a columned, pre-Revolutionary mansion near Ellenton. By summer their work force will reach 6,000, mounting to 35,000 at the project's peak next year. Target date for completion: late...