Former AT&T "Buckingham" Project Office | military, Cold War 1947-1991, telecommunication, bunker, tropospheric scatter station, underground facility, underground station entrance / exit

USA / Virginia / Appomattox /
 military, Cold War 1947-1991, telecommunication, bunker, tropospheric scatter station, underground facility, underground station entrance / exit
Built in the late 1950's as a communications relay station in the AT&T Project Office chain of troposcatter communications stations that linked US armed forces command centers in the Washington DC area to Fort Bragg, Pope and Seymour Johnson Air Force Base on the Automatic Voice Network (AUTOVON) system. Like the other Project Office installations, the majority of facility infrastructure was located in a subterranean bunker which was nuclear-hardened to ensure operation in the event of attack. The site operated throughout the Cold War and relayed communications between Project Office sites at Chatham and Charlottesville.

Closed in the early 2000s, the site has since been sold to private interests and is now in use for storage while topside has been sold to private homeowners.

www.coldwar-c4i.net/ATT_Project/Buckingham/index.html

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Wikipedia article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Offices
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Coordinates:   37°33'42"N   78°45'45"W

Comments

  • Used to link up Chatham, Leesburg, Hag#2 into the ICBM fields located near here. This site has since been sold, fully decomissioned, and is in the middle of being turned into a archive for old documents for local banks and insurance companies.
  • i went there about two months ago. It is now owned by a man and a woman, and they have built a home on top of the old bunker. They are not friendly; nor are their dogs.
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