This month’s Daytrippin’ is about 90 minutes away in Aiken, SC. The Savannah River Site Museum is on Laurens Street SW. The SRS Museum tells the history with technological, and scientific history, scientific achievements, social and ecological accomplishment of the Savannah Rivers Site, know to the longtime local as the “Bomb Plant.”
In addition to displays on Atomic Energy and Nuclear Research, the museum explains the significance the facility during the Cold War and the Space Race. The museum also has displays of the impact the construction of the expansive site had on the local community, including the moving of the entire town of Ellington, SC to the current location of New Ellington, SC.
We were met with a very information and well-versed staff person. The museum is small but packed with timelines, items from the sites and the community. Examples of radiation effects, fallout shelters and historical pictures. This is well worth the time and if you have ever been curious about the site, it answers numerous questions about the mysterious site. The entire building is chock-full of items from the 1950’s and 1960’s concerning the nuclear science occurring and the advertising and products that arose from it…