White Sands Missile Range, Trinity Site, Vicinity of Routes 13 & 20, White Sands, Dona Ana County, NM

Significance: The United States detonated the world's first atomic bomb at Trinity Site on July 16, 1945. The site contains a fenced-in area and marker at Ground Zero, the remnants of a number of test structures, the remains of Base Camp, and the restored George McDonald ranch house where the bomb's plutonium core was assembled. Trinity Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places, and designated a National Historic Landmark, in 1972.

Unprocessed Field note material exists for this structure: FN-2

Survey number: HAER NM-1-A

Building/structure dates: 1983-1984 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: after 1945 Demolished

Building/structure dates: 1965 Subsequent Work

Building/structure dates: 1944 Initial Construction

National Register of Historic Places NRIS Number: 66000493

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