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George Jones Memorial Baptist Church

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The George Jones Memorial Baptist Church, also known as the "Wheat Church," is a historic church building at the former site of the community of Wheat in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, United States.Topographical map, USGS. Accessed 2009-06-09.Map of Oak Ridge, City of Oak Ridge, 2008. Accessed 2009-06-10. It is the only structure remaining from Wheat, a rural Roane County community that was dissolved in 1942 when the United States government assumed ownership of the land for the Manhattan Project. Read more on Wikipedia

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