To meet the housing demand for veterans attending the university and their families, trailers were placed on the lawns of the Hill to accommodate families. Hillside Village, on the east side of the Hill where Dougherty Engineering now stands, grew to 75 trailers and included community laundries and bathhouses (one for every 25 trailers). Housing for 485 single students was provided by barracks-type structures—some built by UT and some relocated from Camp Crossville—one set west of Austin Peay, one set where the College of Law Complex is located, and a third set where Glocker Business Administration Building is now located.
Trailers (125) were also placed along Kingston Pike at the agriculture campus, (Kingston Pike Village) next to the home of former UT President Harcourt Morgan, at that time a TVA director. Fifty of the trailers on the agriculture campus had a second bedroom, and water and sewer service to all agricultural campus trailers was provided. The trailers were moved from Oak Ridge, where they had provided housing for scientists during the development of the atomic bomb. Since they had neither wheels nor axles, they were lifted by cranes onto trucks and lifted from the trucks to foundations that were built by 32 members of the Vol Veterans Club and 40 employees of contractor Dykes and Gerhardt. For a time, Dykes and Gerhardt employees had to cross the picket lines of their union to help build the foundations.
The trailers on Hillside Village began to be removed in 1950 when repairs became uneconomical. The final eight families living in the village at the close of winter quarter 1951 were relocated either to Kingston Pike Village or Sutherland Avenue.