Category:McDonald Ranch (HAER images)
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English: McDonald Ranch — taken over in 1942 as part of the Army's Alamogordo Bombing and Gunnery Range, in the White Sands area of Doña Ana County, New Mexico.
- The McDonald-Schmidt Ranch House and ranch were the location of the final assembly of the Manhattan Project Fat Man plutonium bomb on July 13, 1945, the first tested nuclear weapon in the world, detonated at the Trinity test on July 16, 1945.
- A part of the National Historic Landmark Trinity Site, which is also on the National Register of Historic Places in Doña Ana County. Images from HAER−Historic American Engineering Record of New Mexico.
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