Mound Cold War Discovery Center Ribbon Cutting
On Monday, April 23, 2018, at 10:00 a.m. Dayton History will unveil the Mound Cold War Discovery Center.
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Mound Cold War Discovery Center Ribbon Cutting
Speakers at the ribbon cutting ceremony include:
- Ohio Congressman Mike Turner (OH-10)
- Miamisburg Mayor Dick Church
- U.S. Department of Energy Office of Legacy Management officials
- Mound Development Corporation President Eric Cluxton
- Dayton History President & CEO Brady Kress
Free and open to the public, Dayton History has been diligently working on the Mound project, a cooperative effort between the Department of Energy, Office of Legacy Management, and the Mound Science and Energy Museum Association, since early 2016. The new museum will offer tours, educational programs, workshops, school visits, and lectures for all ages. Mound Laboratory's historic stories will be illustrated with multi-media kiosks and hands-on displays.
During its heyday, Mound employed approximately 2,500 people and occupied 116 buildings across 306 acres. From 1948-2003, the scientific work of this government facility was so top secret that some remains classified to this day. Named for the neighboring Adena Mound -- one of the two largest conical mounds in eastern North America -- Mound Laboratory revolutionized Cold War, Nuclear Age, and Space Race history.
As the nation's first Atomic Energy Commission site constructed after World War II, Mound Laboratory continued the work of the storied Dayton Project. By transforming obscure locales into laboratories -- a seminary, warehouses, an opulent playhouse, and other sites -- the Dayton Project, part of the larger Manhattan Project, produced the trigger for the atomic bomb. Time and again, Daytonians have proved themselves masters of research and development, and Mound Laboratory would become yet another chapter in the city's world-changing history.
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