The Army Corps of Engineers worked with Spokane architect Gustav A. Pehrson, to erect housing to accommodate workers at the Hanford Engineer Works (HEW), operated by E.I. Du Pont de Nemours and Company, the Delaware-based chemical giant, for the US Government's Manhattan Engineering District (MED). The village housed those who built the buildings surrounding the HEW, the site of the first plutonium processing facility, critical for building the atomic bomb. Construction occurred between 03/1943-06/1945.

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