Robertsville, Tennessee

Robertsville was a farming community in Anderson County, Tennessee, that was disbanded in 1942 when the area was acquired for the Manhattan Project.

[2] During the 19th century, Robertsville was the site of a slave block;[2] during the Civil War, however, community residents generally supported the Union cause.

[2] Notable residents included Swiss-German immigrant Henry Sienknecht, a Confederate Army physician who practiced medicine in Robertsville for several decades after the Civil War before moving in 1890 to Oliver Springs, where he operated a store.

[3][4] The community existed until 1942, when the United States government acquired the land as a part of the Manhattan Project.

In the 1930s Cross Spring was dammed by a local farmer to form a small lake that the Army Corps of Engineers lined with concrete during World War II to convert it to a large swimming pool.