Dunbarton, South Carolina

Dunbarton was a town in Barnwell County, South Carolina, United States.

In 1951, it was acquired by the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission as part of a site for the Savannah River Plant.

The old line east of Dunbarton is a spur that now services the Savannah River Site.

On November 28, 1950, the U.S. Atomic Energy Commission and the E. I. du Pont de Nemours Company announced that the Savannah River Plant would be built on about 300 sq.

The Savannah River Plant was built for the production of plutonium and tritium for the H-bomb.

Many of the residents moved themselves, and in some cases, their homes to Barnwell, Williston, Jackson, Beech Island, Aiken, South Carolina, and Augusta, Georgia.